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Minds in motion : imagining empiricism in eighteenth-century British travel literature / Anne M. Thell.
Van Pelt Library PR756.T72 T44 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thell, Anne M., author.
- Series:
- Transits (Bucknell University)
- Transits: literature, thought & culture, 1650-1850
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English prose literature.
- Travelers' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Travelers' writings, English.
- Travel writing--History--18th century.
- Travel writing.
- Empiricism in literature.
- Travel in literature.
- History.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Co-published with The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2017]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Thell, Anne M., author. Minds in motion
- ISBN:
- 9781611488272
- 1611488273
- OCLC:
- 987797051
- Publisher Number:
- 40027506379
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