Wonder & science : imagining worlds in early modern Europe
Mary B. Campbell (Author)
"During the early modern period, western Europe was transformed by the proliferation of new worlds - geographic worlds found in the voyages of discovery as well as conceptual and celestial worlds opened by natural philosophy, or science."--BOOK JACKET. "Campbell's new book analyzes a cross section of texts in which worlds were made and unmade; these texts include cosmographics, colonial reports, works of natural philosophy and natural history, fantastic voyages, exotic fictions, and confessions."--BOOK JACKET. "With more than 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."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 366 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm
9780801436482, 9780801489181, 0801436486, 0801489180
41628149
1. IntroductionPart I Imagination and Discipline2. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I3. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of ArtPart II Alternative Worlds4. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds5. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac6. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible WorldsPart III7. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters8. "My Travels to the Other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam9: E Pluribus Unum: Lafita's Moeurs des sauvages amériquaians and Enlightenment EthnologyCoda: The Wild Child
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