Narrative and Meaning in Early Modern England
Subtitle: Browne's Skull and Other Histories (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 21, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9780521036863
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Renaissance; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--; English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: If the early modern period is that moment in the history of the west in which science in its distinctly modern form begins to emerge from complex pre-modern assemblages of mystical, hermetic, folkloric, metaphysical, and religious beliefs and practices, it is also the moment in which meaning in general begins a gradual transformation into the privileged domain of the discourses of science.