World-Building and the New Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Prose Fictions of Cosmic Voyage
- ISBN-10
- 3631862709
- ISBN-13
- 9783631862704
- Category
- Astronomy in literature
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2022
- Publisher
- Bayreuther Beiträge zur Literaturwissenschaft
- Author
- Evelyn Koch
Description
The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic voyage in the seventeenth century. It analyses the world-building of cosmic voyages by combining theories of world-building with contemporary concepts from early modern literature and shows how imaginary worlds were created in early modern prose literature.
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