Braider, Christopher. <br/><br/>
Experimental Selves :  Person and Experience in Early Modern Europe. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (442 pages) 
<br/><br/>Cover -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Changing the Subject: Early Modern Persons and the Culture of Experiment -- 1  The Shape of Knowledge: The Culture of Experiment and the Byways of Expression -- 2  The Art of the Inside Out: Vision and Expression in Hoogstraten's Peepshow -- 3  Persons and Portraits: The Vicissitudes of Burckhardt's Individual -- 4  Justice in the Marketplace: The Invisible Hand in Ben Jonson's Bartholomew Fayre -- 5  Actor, Act, and Action: The Poetics of Agency in Corneille, Racine, and Molière -- 6  The Experiment of Beauty: Vraisemblance Extraordinaire in Lafayette's Princesse de Clèves -- 7  Groping in the Dark: Aesthetics and Ontology in Diderot and Kant -- Conclusion. Person, Experiment, and the World They Made -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. 
<br/><br/> Drawing on the generous semantic range the term enjoyed in early modern usage, the book argues that person as early moderns understood it was an "experimental" phenomenon--at once a given of experience and the self-conscious arena of that experience. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781487518509 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Self in literature.<br/>Self-perception in art.<br/>Self-knowledge, Theory of-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.S46 .B735 2018 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.93353