Minds in motion : imagining empiricism in eighteenth-century British travel literature /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Thell, Anne M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2017].
Series:	Transits (Bucknell University)
Subjects:	English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Travelers' writings, English > History and criticism. Travel writing > History > 18th century. Empiricism in literature. Travel in literature.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Imagining empiricism
Lady Phoenix: motion, imagination, and Cavendish's blazing world
Pirate scientists: narrative versus natural history in the New Voyages of the 1690s
A prospect of the world on the other side: Defoe's new voyage and virtual travel experience
Narrative authority and ideal presence in John Hawkesworth's account of the voyages
Johnson's journey and the terror of sight
Epilogue: Imagining perception.