Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750

Judy A. Hayden

ISBN 10: 1138278858 / ISBN 13: 9781138278851

Published by Routledge 2016-11-28, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750
• Publisher: Routledge 2016-11-28
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138278858
• ISBN 13: 9781138278851
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The focus of this volume is the intersection and the cross-fertilization between the travel narrative, literary discourse, and the New Philosophy in the early modern to early eighteenth-century historical periods. Contributors examine how, in an historical era which realized an emphasis on nation and during a time when exploration was laying the foundation for empire, science and the literary discourse of the travel narrative become intrinsically linked. Together, the essays in this collection point out the way in which travel narratives reflect the anxiety from changes brought about through the discoveries of the 'new knowledge' and the way this knowledge in turn provided a new and more complex understanding of the expanding world in which the writers lived. The worlds in this text are many (for no 'world' is monomial), from the antipodes to the New World, from the heavens to the seas, and from fictional worlds to the world which contains and/or constructs one's nation and empire. All of these essays demonstrate the manner in which the New Philosophy dramatically changed literary discourse.

About the Author

Judy Hayden is Associate Professor of English and Chair of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. She has published extensively on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature.