Davis, Dr Nick (University of Liverpool, UK)

Early Modern Writing and the Privatization of Experience Davis, Dr Nick (University of Liverpool, UK)

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2013.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Reading a wide range of early modern authors and exploring their political, philosophical and scientific contexts, this book charts the movement away from reliance on collective experience, and the construction of the individual as the locus of authentic perception, thought and feeling, which occurs between the 14th and early 18th centuries. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements Introduction: Instruments of Change1. The Private and the Communal - Degrees of SeparationPart AIntroduction: Cosmomorphic Fracture: 'For every man alone thinks that he hath got / To be a Phoenix' 2. 'That Dark Sun': Donne and Melancholic Individuality 3. King Lear and the Death of the World Part B Introduction: Collective Representations, Symbolic Narratives 4 Readerly Isolation and Subjective Freedom in" The Faerie Queene" 5 Hobbes and Bunyan: The Subsuming Individual Vision Part C Introduction: Refiguring Community, Thinking through Festivity 6 Taking Sights in "Richard II - 1 Henry IV" 7 A Reconstitution of Community: 'Nature's' Dismantling and Replacement in "The Winter's Tale"Notes Bibliography IndexBiographical Note: Nick Davis is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK. His previous publications include "Stories of Chaos: Reason and Its Displacement in Early Modern English Narrative" (1999). Contributor Bio:  Davis, Nick Nick Davis is an Englishman currently living on the East Coast of the USA, not too far removed from Baltimore. Growing up Nick was an avid reader of comic books and could be found regularly buried in a copy of Warlord, Battle, Action, 2000AD, The Beano, Chipper or Rupert the Bear. Truthfully, you can still find him today with his feet up nose buried in a comic. He is married to a very patient Irish American Lady, and has three children. When he isn't working, running errands, playing with the kids, digging through an ever growing list of 'honey do' projects Nick can be found plodding away on a keyboard or picking up a pencil to explore the world of wonder and imagination.