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Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0226042642
ISBN13: 9780226042640
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Aug 1 2002
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.16
Language: English
Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature.-Library Journal

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.

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