Title: Literate experience
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: English literature, History, History and criticism, Influence, Knowledge, Theory of, Knowledge, Theory of, in literature, Theory of Knowledge, Epistemology, theory of knowledge, Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries, Literary theory, c 1600 to c 1700, Literature - Classics / Criticism, English, Literary Criticism, England, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, 17th century, Bacon, Francis,, Early modern, 1500-1700, Bacon, francis, 1561-1626, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700
Places: England
People: Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
Time periods: 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700
LC classification: B1133.K56 B37 2002