Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature

Minds in Motion: Imagining Empiricism in Eighteenth-Century British Travel Literature
ISBN-10
1611488281
ISBN-13
9781611488289
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2017-08-31
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Author
Anne M. Thell

Description

Minds in Motion argues that travel literature expedites individual engagements with epistemology because the genre forces authors to determine and disclose the potential value of their individual perspectives. More specifically, it examines how eighteenth-century British travel writers explore newly configured models of empiricism even as they continue to probe the role of the self and the imagination in the production of experiential knowledge.

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