Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hayden, Judy A.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The focus of this volume is 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. Contributors examine how, in an historical era which realized an emphasis on nation and during a time when exploration was laying the foundation for empire, science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked. Together, the essays in this collection point out the way in which travel narratives reflect the anxiety from changes brought about through the discoveries of the 'new knowledge' and the way this knowledge in turn provided a new and more complex understanding of the expanding world in which the writers lived. The worlds in this text are many (for no 'world' is monomial), from the antipodes to the New World, from the heavens to the seas, and from fictional worlds to the world which contains and/or constructs one's nation and empire. All of these essays demonstrate the manner in which the New Philosophy dramatically changed literary discourse.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317006510
• Artikelnr.: 44864191

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.