Barbara M. Benedict is professor in and chair of the English department at Trinity College, Connecticut. She is the author of Making the Modern Reader and Framing Feeling.
What kind of person is curious? What makes a person or thing an object of curiosity? From Gulliver to Frankenstein, from detectives to hot air baloonists, curious and inquiring characters have been portrayed as themselves curiosities, as social upstarts, and as spectacles to behold. With Curiosity, Barbara Benedict offers a new cultural history of curiosity as it shaped English writing from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries.
Drawing on novels both popular and obscure, ghost stories, travel narratives, trial transcripts, journalism, poems, and pornography, Benedict argues that writers of this period depicted curiosity as an unsavory form of cultural ambition. Curiosity, we learn, was persistently seen as a king of transgression that allowed curious people - scientists, collectors, and prayers of all sorts - to escape their natural places and usurp institutions, meanings, and bodies for private use.
Finely illustrated and the first of its kind, Curiosity is a broad study of modern inquiry that explores the way forbidden topics like the occult, sexuality, gender, and the origin of power became topics of public investigation.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 早期現代 curiosity UK STS EarlyModernEurope Culture
引言---舉例舉例再舉例---結論,我最喜歡的簡單粗暴研究方法。Barbara Benedict中規中矩的學術語言,仿佛是非母語學究們可以模仿來的…
評分引言---舉例舉例再舉例---結論,我最喜歡的簡單粗暴研究方法。Barbara Benedict中規中矩的學術語言,仿佛是非母語學究們可以模仿來的…
評分引言---舉例舉例再舉例---結論,我最喜歡的簡單粗暴研究方法。Barbara Benedict中規中矩的學術語言,仿佛是非母語學究們可以模仿來的…
評分引言---舉例舉例再舉例---結論,我最喜歡的簡單粗暴研究方法。Barbara Benedict中規中矩的學術語言,仿佛是非母語學究們可以模仿來的…
評分引言---舉例舉例再舉例---結論,我最喜歡的簡單粗暴研究方法。Barbara Benedict中規中矩的學術語言,仿佛是非母語學究們可以模仿來的…
Curiosity 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載