Literate experience
Subtitle: the work of knowing in seventeenth-century English writing
By: Andrew Barnaby and Lisa J. Schnell
Contributors: Schnell, Lisa Jane
Edition: 1st ed
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Bacon, Francis, -- 1561-1626 -- Influence; Knowledge, Theory of -- England -- History -- 17th century; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Description: "Literate Experience argues for the existence of certain shared patterns of intellectual association in the English seventeenth century, patterns that follow the outlines of Bacon's project of epistemological reform. Bacon's project offered a theory of how knowing as a private act could be transformed into a public one, an act related to the creation and maintenance of public authority. The question thus becomes, how did thinkers in the period reimagine civil society as a polity of knowledge?

This study traces out a variety of answers to that question, ranging from the Royal Society's communal rhetoric to the work of William Shakespeare, Aemelia Lanyer, Andrew Marvell, and Aphra Behn who, in a variety of ways, problematize the notion that political society exists as a community of shared knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-229) and index