Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World
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Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World

Representations, Descriptions and Uses of the Unfamiliar

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Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World

Representations, Descriptions and Uses of the Unfamiliar

About this book

This collection of chapters explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various geographical, chronological and thematic lenses.

Exploring representations, descriptions and uses of the unfamiliar, the contributors discuss and elucidate rhetorical, epistemological, religious, colonial, materialistic and emotional aspects of wonder in the early modern world. They study European travellers and their texts, as well as descriptions of wonder within the Muslim world and reactions to the unfamiliar reported by Muslim travellers in Europe. The collection ranges from travellers' descriptions of wonder to an analysis of wonders that have travelled. With its focus on "wonder" in the context of early modern travel, this volume fills a significant gap in research, shedding new light on the history of intercultural encounters and on the processes of learning about the world and our place in it.

The book is aimed at both academic and non-academic readers, for experts who study early modern history and travel writing, and for lay readers who are curious about the history of travel and about past conceptions of the world and foreign cultures.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040411353
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half Title page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. 1 Introduction: Ways of Seeing and Reporting Wonder
  9. 2 Taming wonder through ekphrasis: Florida and Europe, 1542 and 1605
  10. 3 A Country for Old Men?: Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of Guiana
  11. 4 Wonders travelling from China: Examples from the Settala collection
  12. 5 Evliya Çelebi in Egypt: Self-fashioning and the creation of the wondrous
  13. 6 Explaining Wonders: Kashmir in the Voyages of François Bernier
  14. 7 From Strange to Familiar: Ottoman Eyes in Paris in the Eighteenth Century
  15. 8 Wonders and curiosities: Early modern British impressions of Bohemia
  16. 9 Reducing and Othering Wonder: The Work of John Green and Abbé Prévost
  17. 10 Wonders of the night: Nocturnal darkness as a sensory experience
  18. 11 Columbus, Travel and Wonder: A Decolonial Reading from Latin American Marvelous Real
  19. Index