Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World

Representations, Descriptions and Uses of the Unfamiliar
Herausgeber: Kainulainen, Jaska

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various geographical, chronological and thematic lenses.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032829098
• ISBN-10: 1032829095
• Artikelnr.: 73777654

Autorenporträt

Jaska Kainulainen is a Docent of the History of Ideas at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (2014) and Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition (2024), along with multiple articles and book chapters.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Ways of Seeing and Reporting Wonder 2. Taming Wonder
Through Ekphrasis: Florida and Europe, 1542 and 1605 3. A Country for Old
Men?: Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of Guiana
4. Wonders Travelling from China: Examples from the Settala Collection 5.
Evliya Çelebi in Egypt: Self-Fashioning and the Creation of the Wondrous 6.
Explaining Wonders: Kashmir in the Voyages of François Bernier 7. From
Strange to Familiar: Ottoman Eyes in Paris in the Eighteenth Century 8.
Wonders and Curiosities: Early Modern British Impressions of Bohemia 9.
Reducing and Othering Wonder: The Work of John Green and Abbé Prévost 10.
Wonders of the Night: Nocturnal Darkness as a Sensory Experience 11.
Columbus, Travel and Wonder: A Decolonial Reading from Latin American
Marvelous Real