Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World

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Beschreibung

This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various geographical, chronological and thematic lenses.

Über den Autor

Jaska Kainulainen is a Docent of the History of Ideas at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (2014) and Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition (2024), along with multiple articles and book chapters.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Ways of Seeing and Reporting Wonder 2. Taming Wonder Through Ekphrasis: Florida and Europe, 1542 and 1605 3. A Country for Old Men?: Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discoverie of Guiana 4. Wonders Travelling from China: Examples from the Settala Collection 5. Evliya Çelebi in Egypt: Self-Fashioning and the Creation of the Wondrous 6. Explaining Wonders: Kashmir in the Voyages of François Bernier 7. From Strange to Familiar: Ottoman Eyes in Paris in the Eighteenth Century 8. Wonders and Curiosities: Early Modern British Impressions of Bohemia 9. Reducing and Othering Wonder: The Work of John Green and Abbé Prévost 10. Wonders of the Night: Nocturnal Darkness as a Sensory Experience 11. Columbus, Travel and Wonder: A Decolonial Reading from Latin American Marvelous Real

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9781032829104
ISBN-10:	1032829109
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Kainulainen, Jaska
Hersteller:	Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstr. 24, D-80331 München, gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com
Maße:	234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Jaska Kainulainen
Erscheinungsdatum:	18.08.2025
Gewicht:	0,351 kg