The Reinvention of the World: English Writing 1650-1750

English Writing 1650 - 1750; At the centre of this book is the issue of power and its fictions, the ability to dominate with schemes of knowledge and the resistance to that domination. In is investigation, Douglas Chambers achieves a complex interweave of what have traditionally been thought of as 'Literary' and 'non-literary' texts, a distinction that in the past has served to privilege one sort of voice over another. In the process, there is a deconstruction of the familiar canon.