{"product_id":"early-modern-writing-and-the-nick-davis-9781474232821","title":"Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience","description":"\u003cp\u003eReading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their cultural-historical, philosophical and scientific contexts, \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the shift in focus from reliance on shared experience to placing of trust in individualized experience which occurs in the writing and culture of the period. Nick Davis contends that much of the era's literary production participates significantly in this broad cultural movement. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCovering key writers of the period including Shakespeare, Donne, Chaucer, Spenser, Langland, Hobbes and Bunyan, Davis begins with an overview of the medieval-early modern privatizing cultural transition. He then goes on to offer an analysis of \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRichard II\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenry IV Part 1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e, and the first three books of \u003ci\u003eThe Fairie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e, among other texts, considering their treatment of the relation between individual life and the life attributed to the cosmos, the idea of symbolic narrative positing a collective human subject, and the forming of pragmatic relations between individual and group.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474232825\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474232821\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"Nick Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458590093567,"sku":"9781474232821","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c73812c-3e54-4cc0-bae0-af7ee8259fa2.jpg?v=1777405365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/early-modern-writing-and-the-nick-davis-9781474232821","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}