Wonder & science imagining worlds in early modern Europe
I. Introduction -- Pt. I. Imagination and Discipline. II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- Pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Cel...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Ithaca, NY u.a.
Cornell University Press
1999
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | I. Introduction -- Pt. I. Imagination and Discipline. II. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I. III. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- Pt. II. Alternative Worlds. IV. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds. V. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac. VI. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- Pt. III. The Arts of Anthropology. VII. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters. VIII. "My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam. IX. E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology. Coda: The Wild Child. I.Introduction -- Pt. I.Imagination and Discipline.II.Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: Andre Thevet and America, Part I.III.The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art -- Pt. II.Alternative Worlds.IV.On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds.V.A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac.VI.Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds -- Pt. III.The Arts of Anthropology.VII.Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters.VIII."My Travels to the other World": Aphra Behn and Surinam.IX.E Pluribus Unum: Lafitau's Moeurs des sauvages ameriquains and Enlightenment Ethnology.Coda: The Wild Child. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 366 S Ill., Kt 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0801436486 0-8014-3648-6 |