Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750

Herausgeber: Hayden, Judy A

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Produktbeschreibung

Focuses on the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. This title examines how science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 600g
• ISBN-13: 9781409420422
• ISBN-10: 1409420426
• Artikelnr.: 41240101

Autorenporträt

Judy Hayden is Associate Professor of English and Chair of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. She has published extensively on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Intersections and cross-fertilization
Judy A. Hayden; Part 1 Inquiry and Fact: Directing the Course of Knowledge: Inquiries
heads and directions: orienting early modern travel
Daniel Carey; Forming knowledge: natural philosophy and English travel writing
Julia Schleck; Geography and authority in the Royal Society's instructions for travelers
Jason H. Pearl. Part 2 New Science
New Worlds: Traditions of the monstrous in William Dampier's New Holland
Geraldine Barnes; Writing 'science fiction' in the shadow of war: bodily transgressions in Cavendish's Blazing World
Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker; 'As far as a woman's reasoning may go': Aphra Behn
Oroonoko
and the new science
Judy A. Hayden; Roger Phequewell
colonial man of science: re-reading imperial fantasy in Merryland
Marcia Nichols. Part 3 Charting Knowledge
Mapping Encounters: Telescopic voyages: Galileo and the invention of lunar cartography
Howard Marchitello; Defoe the geographer: redefining the wonderful in A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain
Jesse Edwards. Part 4 The Curiosity of Travel: Spectating science in the early modern collection
Barbara M. Benedict; Selected works cited; Index.