Minds in motion : imagining empiricism in eighteenth-century British travel literature / Anne M. Thell.
Author/creator |
Thell, Anne M. author. |
Format | Book and Print |
Publication Info | Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017] |
Description | xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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Series | Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850 Transits (Bucknell University) ^A1093119 |
Contents | Introduction: Imagining empiricism -- Lady Phoenix: motion, imagination, and Cavendish's blazing world -- Pirate scientists: narrative versus natural history in the New Voyages of the 1690s -- A prospect of the world on the other side: Defoe's new voyage and virtual travel experience -- Narrative authority and ideal presence in John Hawkesworth's account of the voyages -- Johnson's journey and the terror of sight -- Epilogue: Imagining perception. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Thell, Anne M., author. Minds in motion [Lewisburg] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017] 9781611488289 |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2017025821 |
ISBN | 9781611488272 hardcover alkaline paper |
ISBN | 1611488273 hardcover alkaline paper |
Standard identifier# | 40027506379 |
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