Minds in Motion - Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature

Minds in Motion argues that travel literature expedites individual engagements with epistemology because the genre forces authors to determine and disclose the potential value of their individual perspectives, as well as examines how travel writers explore newly configured models of empiricism in the production of experiential knowledge.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Imagining Empiricism
Chapter 1: Lady Phoenix: Motion, Imagination, and Cavendish's Blazing World
Chapter 2: Pirate Scientists: Narrative versus Natural History in the "New Voyages" of the 1690s
Chapter 3: "A Prospect of the World on the other Side": Defoe's New Voyage and Virtual Travel Experience
Chapter 4: Narrative Authority and Ideal Presence in John Hawkesworth's Account of the Voyages
Chapter 5: Johnson's Journey and the Terror of Sight
Epilogue: Imagining Perception
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

About the author

Anne M. Thell is assistant professor of English literature at National University of Singapore.

Product details

• Authors: Anne M Thell, Anne M. Thell
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611488272
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-827-2
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 590 g
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies