Автор: Rubi?s, Joan-Pau Название: Travellers and Cosmographers ISBN: 1138382361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138382367 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 7348.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Joan-Pau Rubiйs brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings, much of them with an empirical basis, albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance, the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas, but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers, historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show, the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions, travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates, ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama, to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China, or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians.
Автор: Lamb, Ursula Название: Cosmographers and Pilots of the Spanish Maritime Empire ISBN: 0860784738 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780860784739 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Major, R.H. Название: The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia ISBN: 1409412725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409412724 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 20671.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Designed to reform contemporary British society, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele’s The Tatler (1709-1711) and The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714) rely heavily on the representation of contemporary manners. In shaping such behavioural images, the authors made use of the satirical character sketch. Their character sketches (re)create social interactions between fictionalised representatives of moral types of men and women located in contemporary London. This study examines how Addison and Steele employed the character sketch to create a ‘cosmography’ of (wo)man by actively engaging with the observational approaches of contemporary naturalists. Addison and Steele adapted distinctly empirical methods (e.g. induction and deduction, note taking, repeated and collective observation) and appropriated the (medico-legal) case study to communicate and disseminate socio-moral knowledge. At the same time, the character sketch served them as a means to establish a taxonomic order of the socio-moral knowledge conveyed in the texts. The study sheds new light on the literary techniques and the methodological frameworks of two journals essentially associated with the British - and the European - Enlightenment.
Автор: McLean, Matthew Название: The Cosmographia of Sebastian M?nster ISBN: 0754658430 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754658436 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22968.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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