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Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder

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In this bold new account, the 18th century bears witness not to the world's disenchantment but rather to wonder's re-location from the supernatural realm to the empirical world, providing a re-evaluation not only of how we look back at the Enlightenment, but also of how we read today.

Title Eighteenth-century fiction and the reinvention of wonder / Sarah Tindal Kareem.
Edition First edition.
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2014
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction: Wonder and the rise of fiction -- Wonder in the age of enlightenment -- Rethinking the real with Robinson Crusoe and David Hume -- Suspending the reader in Tom Jones and The Castle of Otranto -- "Marvelous tales of wonders performed, or rather, not performed" in Baron Munchausen's Narrative -- "A little voyage of discovery?": fiction and the pursuit of knowledge -- Epilogue.
Extent 1 online resource (305 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702352205171
MARC RECORDS
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