Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England

Klappentext An exploration of the 'subject' (private self and public citizen) as object of discovery in Renaissance writing. Zusammenfassung The struggle by one man to discover the secrets in another's heart is central to early modern discourse. Elizabeth Hanson examines the records of state torture! plays by Shakespeare and Jonson! 'cony-catching' pamphlets and Francis Bacon's philosophical writing to demonstrate a reconceptualizing of the 'subject' in both the political and philosophical sense of the term. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Torture and truth; 2. Brothers of the state; 3. Authors and others; 4. Francis Bacon and the discovering subject; Notes.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Hanson, Elizabeth (Queen''s University Hanson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521090711
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09071-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissan
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies