Curiosity : a cultural history of early modern inquiry
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Curiosity : a cultural history of early modern inquiry
University of Chicago Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780226042633
Description
The author offers a cultural history of curiosity as it shaped English writing from the late-17th to early 19th centuries. Drawing on novels, ghost stories and travel narratives, the author argues that writers depicted curiosity as an unsavoury form of cultural ambition.
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: pbk ISBN 9780226042640
Description
"Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature."-Library Journal
In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.
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