UID:
edocfu_9959240581502883
Format:
1 online resource (305 p.)
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
0-19-883378-4
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0-19-180202-6
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0-19-100312-3
Content:
In this bold new account, the 18th century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Introduction: Wonder and the rise of fiction -- Wonder in the age of enlightenment -- Rethinking the real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume -- Suspending the reader in Tom Jones and The Castle of Otranto -- "Marvelous tales of wonders performed, or rather, not performed" in Baron Munchausen's Narrative -- "A little voyage of discovery?": fiction and the pursuit of knowledge -- Epilogue.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-968910-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-22273-8
Language:
English
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