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Early Modern Writing and the Privatisation of Experience

Early Modern Writing and the Privitization of Experience (70,000 words) advances a relatively extensive and complex thesis, integrating research in several disciplinary fields. It focuses on the transference of predominant individual trust from the outward-facing, public self, to the private self not directly known to others. Focussing on major 16th and 17th century writing, the book, which was two and a half years in the writing, examines a highly-significant early modern cultural transition, (modification/ abandonment of cosmomorphism; engagement with collective representations, as in narrative allegory; collectivism of group outlook) not well mapped in modern enquiry.