Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569–1750
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'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.' (Publisher's blurb)

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Ashgate , 2012 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Traditions of the Monstrous in William Dampier's New Holland, Geraldine Barnes , single work criticism (p. 87-101)

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