Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550,1660

The essays in Word and Self Estranged in English Texts, 1550-1660, consider diverse historical contexts for writing about ''strangeness''. They draw on current practices of reading to present contrasts and analogies within and between various social understandings. In so doing they reveal an interplay of thematic and stylistic modes that tells us a great deal about how, and why, certain aspects of...