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.
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Review Brown, Piers (2013) Review of "Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 238-239).
Review Avramov, Iordan (2014) Review of "Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750". Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science (p. 143).
Essay Review Bauer, Ralph (2012) Science and Early Modern Travel Writings. Huntington Library Quarterly (pp. 611-614).
Chapter Hayden, Judy A. (2012) Intersections and Cross-Fertilization. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 1).
Chapter Carey, Daniel (2012) Inquiries, Heads, and Directions: Orienting Early Modern Travel. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (pp. 25-51).
Chapter Schleck, Julia (2012) Forming Knowledge: Natural Philosophy and English Travel Writing. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 53).
Chapter Pearl, Jason H. (2012) Geography and Authority in the Royal Society's Instructions for Travelers. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 71).
Chapter Barnes, Geraldine (2012) Traditions of the Monstrous in William Dampier's New Holland. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 87).
Chapter Nelson, Holly Faith; Alker, Sharon (2012) Writing “Science Fiction” in the Shadow of War: Bodily Transgressions in Cavendish's Blazing World. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 103).
Chapter Hayden, Judy A. (2012) “As Far as a Woman's Reasoning May Go”: Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, and the New Science. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 123).
Chapter Nichols, Marcia (2012) Roger Phequewell, Colonial Man of Science: Re-Reading Imperial Fantasy in Merryland. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 143).
Chapter Marchitello, Howard (2012) Telescopic Voyages: Galileo and the Invention of Lunar Cartography. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 161).
Chapter Edwards, Jesse (2012) Defoe the Geographer: Redefining the Wonderful in A Tour Thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 179).
Chapter Benedict, Barbara M. (2012) Spectating Science in the Early Modern Collection. In: Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569--1750 (p. 197).
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