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Author:   Mary Baine Campbell
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801436482

ISBN 10:   0801436486
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   03 December 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1. Introduction Part I Imagination and Discipline 2. Travel Writing and Ethnographic Pleasure: André Thevet and America, Part I 3. The Nature of Things and the Vexations of Art Part II Alternative Worlds 4. On the Infinite Universe and the Innumerable Worlds 5. A World in the Moon: Celestial Fictions of Francis Godwin and Cyrano de Bergerac 6. Outside In: Hooke, Cavendish, and the Invisible Worlds Part III 7. Anthropometamorphosis: Manners, Customs, Fashions, and Monsters 8. ""My Travels to the Other World"": Aphra Behn and Surinam 9: E Pluribus Unum: Lafita's Moeurs des sauvages amériquaians and Enlightenment Ethnology Coda: The Wild Child"

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Wonder and Science is a tremendously learned account of the pleasurable yet uneasy coupling of fictional and scientific discourse in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The book traces the evolution, and the interrogations, of the epistemological category of wonder in a dazzling array of scientific and quasi-scientific texts, both English and Continental.... Wonder and Science masterfully illustrates this disciplinary flux--and reflux--of the early modern era, and the book's greatest strengths lie in its sustained focus on the formal and rhetorical synthesis of scientific and nonscientific texts during the period. --Jessica Wolfe Journal of Modern History Wonder and Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world. --Reviewer's Bookwatch

Wonder and Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world. * Reviewer's Bookwatch * Wonder and Science is a tremendously learned account of the pleasurable yet uneasy coupling of fictional and scientific discourse in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The book traces the evolution, and the interrogations, of the epistemological category of wonder in a dazzling array of scientific and quasi-scientific texts, both English and Continental.... Wonder and Science masterfully illustrates this disciplinary flux-and reflux-of the early modern era, and the book's greatest strengths lie in its sustained focus on the formal and rhetorical synthesis of scientific and nonscientific texts during the period. -- Jessica Wolfe * Journal of Modern History *

Wonder and Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world. * Reviewer's Bookwatch * Wonder and Science is a tremendously learned account of the pleasurable yet uneasy coupling of fictional and scientific discourse in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The book traces the evolution, and the interrogations, of the epistemological category of wonder in a dazzling array of scientific and quasi-scientific texts, both English and Continental.... Wonder and Science masterfully illustrates this disciplinary flux-and reflux-of the early modern era, and the book's greatest strengths lie in its sustained focus on the formal and rhetorical synthesis of scientific and nonscientific texts during the period. -- Jessica Wolfe * Journal of Modern History *

Wonder and Science analyzes colonial reports, works of natural history and travel, and popular writings to gather details on how concepts and worlds were challenged and remade. Chapters cover some great authors and thinkers in England and France: individuals who made their marks on a changed world. --Reviewer's Bookwatch Wonder and Science is a tremendously learned account of the pleasurable yet uneasy coupling of fictional and scientific discourse in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. The book traces the evolution, and the interrogations, of the epistemological category of wonder in a dazzling array of scientific and quasi-scientific texts, both English and Continental.... Wonder and Science masterfully illustrates this disciplinary flux--and reflux--of the early modern era, and the book's greatest strengths lie in its sustained focus on the formal and rhetorical synthesis of scientific and nonscientific texts during the period. --Jessica Wolfe Journal of Modern History

Author Information

Mary Baine Campbell is Professor of English at Brandeis University. She is the author of The Witness and the Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600, also from Cornell, in addition to two books of poetry.

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