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  1. Fallen Languages
    Crises of Representation in Newtonian England, 1660-1740
    Autor*in: Markley, Robert
    Erschienen: 2019; ©1993
    Verlag:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca

    Cover -- FALLEN LANGUAGES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, Theory -- 1 "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible -- 2 "Babel revers'd":... mehr

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    Cover -- FALLEN LANGUAGES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Physico-Theology: Dialogics, History, Theory -- 1 "A Close (though Mystick) Connection": Boyle's Defense of the Bible -- 2 "Babel revers'd": Real Characters, Philosophical Languages, and Idealizations of Order -- 3 "Those Fabulous Chaldeans,: Boyle and the Crisis of Baconianism -- 4 "Ye true &amp -- real temple of God": Mathematics, History, and the Narrative Structures of Newton's Natural Philosophy -- 5 "The interposition of Omniscience": History, Method, and Aesthetics in Early Eighteenth-Century Newtonianism -- 6 Boyle "Epitomiz' d": The Reinscription of Science in Early Eighteenth-Century England -- Epilogue -- Index.

     

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  2. Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
    'from an Antique Land'
    Autor*in: Leask, Nigel
    Erschienen: 2002
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the 'antique lands' of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel... mehr

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    The first book of its kind to study the Romantic obsession with the 'antique lands' of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing is an important contribution to the recent wave of interest in exotic travel writing. Drawing generously on both original texts and modern scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology, it focuses on the unstable discourse of 'curiosity' to offer an important reformulationof the relations between literature, aesthetics, and colonialism in the period.

     

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