Wonder and Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern EuropeCornell University Press, 10 dec 2004 - 384 pagina's During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds—geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery and conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science. The response to incredible overseas encounters and to the profound technological, religious, economic, and intellectual changes occurring in Europe was one of nearly overwhelming wonder, expressed in a rich variety of texts. In the need to manage this wonder, to harness this imaginative overabundance, Mary Baine Campbell finds both the sensational beauty of early scientific works and the beginnings of the divergence of the sciences—particularly geography, astronomy, and anthropology—from the writing of fiction. Campbell's learned and brilliantly perceptive new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographies, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions. Among the authors she discusses are André Thevet, Thomas Hariot, Francis Bacon, Galileo, Margaret Cavendish, and Aphra Behn. Campbell's emphasis is on developments in England and France, but she considers works in languages other than English or French which were well known in the polyglot book culture of the time. With over thirty well-chosen illustrations, Wonder and Science enhances our understanding of the culture of early modern Europe, the history of science, and the development of literary forms, including the novel and ethnography. |
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... (chap. 4, "To Fashion a Gentleman"), Bernadette Bucher's Icon and Conquest (La dauvage aux weina pendanta), Peter Hulme's Colonial Encountera, Patricia Parker's Literary Fat Ladieu, Mary Louise Pratt's Imperial Eyes, Jonathan Goldberg's ...
... chap. 1 (“The Destabilization of Generic Categories") in Origina of the English Novel. J. Paul Hunter's Before Novel, is less crucially focused on that matter but has much to say about it with regard to the English novel. 10. In The ...
... chap. 4. 4. For the complete catalogue, see T. A. Birrell, Library of John Morris. The catalogue of Secretary of State Thomas Smith included Sebastian Münster's Coamographia and Richard Eden's translation of Peter Martyr's Decadea of ...
... chap. 24.3); Thevet, like Bourdieu, knows this principle in terms of intellectual prestige. 11. Coamographie univerwelle (1575); "Description de plusiers isles par M. André Thevet" (1588). sure in plurality and multiplicity is not to be ...
... chap. 55), the voices turned up "as we were banqueting, far out at sea, feasting and speechifying and telling nice little stories." As in Thevet there is some question whether the voices are real or the protagonist's auditory ...
Inhoudsopgave
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PART II ALTERNATIVE WORLDS | 111 |
PART III THE ARTS OF ANTHROPOLOGY | 221 |
The Wild Child | 319 |
Works Cited | 325 |
Index | 353 |
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