Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Benedict, Barbara M.

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226042640)

Author: Barbara M. Benedict
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Format: Paperback
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Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Benedict, Barbara M.

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

$44.00
Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry by Benedict, Barbara M.

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

$44.00
Format: Paperback
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In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.

Author: Barbara M. Benedict
ISBN-10: 0226042642
ISBN-13: 9780226042640
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2002
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.07w x 0.59d
By Barbara M. Benedict
By Barbara M. Benedict
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Barbara M. Benedict is the Charles A. Dana Professor of English, and chair of the Department of English, at Trinity College, Connecticut. She is the author of Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies and Framing Feeling: Sentiment and Style in English Prose Fiction, 1745-1800.

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