Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry
Barbara M. Benedict
"Drawing on novels both popular and obscure, ghost stories, travel narratives, trial transcripts, journalism, poems, and pornography, Benedict argues that writers of this period depicted curiosity as an unsavory form of cultural ambition. Curiosity, we learn, was persistently seen as a king of transgression that allowed curious people - scientists, collectors, and prayers of all sorts - to escape their natural places and usurp institutions, meanings, and bodies for private use.".
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Yıl:
2001
Yayımcı:
University of Chicago Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
321
ISBN 10:
0226042642
ISBN 13:
9780226042640
Dosya:
PDF, 85.81 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2001