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"The imagination as something other than a source of literary invention is drawing increasing attention in recent years, and this anthology is a noteworthy addition. With essays ranging in topic from the occult to the protoscientific to various forms of colonial propaganda, this book is well-conceived and tightly constructed, with a clear trajectory that runs from actual or literal cosmology through imagined utopias and into idealized colonialist projects. The focus on the imagination and the variety of disciplines covered make World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination as timely and useful as it is stimulating and informative." - Walter Stephens, Charles S. Singleton Professor of Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University
"This is an excellent volume that deals with subjects of considerable interest for a wide variety of readers - in history, history of science, literature, cultural studies, and philosophy. It provides a well-framed and balanced discussion of topics that are both engaging and either entirely novel or approached with new insights and evidence. World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination contains important new contributions to our knowledge." - Lawrence M. Principe, Drew Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
About the authors
ALLISON B. KAVEY is an Associate Professor in the History Department at City University of New York, John Jay College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
Editors: Allison B. Kavey
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113138
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-10588-1Published: 17 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29014-7Published: 17 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11313-8Published: 27 September 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 270
Topics: History of Science, European History, Modern History, Cultural History, Social History