Experimental selves : person and experience in early modern Europe /
Braider, Christopher,1950-author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-404) and index.
The shape of knowledge : the culture of experiment and the byways of expression -- The art of the inside out : vision and expression in Hoogstraten's London peepshow -- Persons and portraits : the vicissitudes of Burckhardt's individual -- Justice in the marketplace : the invisible hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre -- Actor, act, and action : the poetics of agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière -- The experiment of beauty : vraisemblance extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves -- Groping in the dark : aesthetics and ontology in Diderot and Kant.
Self in literature.
Self-perception in art.
Self-knowledge, Theory of
Self (Philosophy)
European literature
European literature.
Intellectual life.
Self in literature.
Self-knowledge, Theory of.
Self-perception in art.
Self (Philosophy)