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Author | : Hendrik Smeeks |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004657762 |
This is the first English edition of a novel that is little known outside Dutch literary circles, but is an interesting example of popular fiction and radical thought about science and society in its day - not only in the Netherlands, but throughout Western Europe. It formed a bridge between the rationalist seventeenth century and the Age of Enlightenment, and was also a lively story in itself. It was rather less than imaginary, moreover, being linked to seventeenth to seventeenth-century Dutch activities in Australia and the first real knowledge about the legendary southern continent. Among the novels based on such exploits, this was one of the most remarkable. The dominance of classics like Defoe's Robinson Crusoe has tended to obscure many such works, but they can be better appreciated today as a result of changing views about literary genres. Defoe, in particular, built on an earlier tradition in which Krinke Kesmes played a vital role. The text is translated from the original edition, and the author's handwritten additions to it are included or discussed in the introduction. A glossary explaining obscure terms and a full bibliography are given along with the introduction, which outlines the background and significance of the work. This is by David Fausett, an authority on early travel fiction and, in particular, that relating to exploration in the austral regions.
Author | : Michiel van Groesen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2019-09-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004348034 |
In Imagining the Americas in Print, Michiel van Groesen reveals the variety of ways in which early modern Europe gathered information and manufactured knowledge about the Americas, and used it to further their colonial ambitions in the Atlantic world.
Author | : Sotirios Triantafyllos |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1648892868 |
'Topos in Utopia' examines early modern literary utopias' and intentional communities' social and cultural conception of space. Starting from Thomas More's seminal work, published in 1516, and covering a period of three centuries until the emergence of Enlightenment's euchronia, this work provides a thorough yet concise examination of the way space was imagined and utilised in the early modern visions of a better society. Dealing with an aspect usually ignored by the scholars of early modern utopianism, this book asks us to consider if utopias' imaginary lands are based not only on abstract ideas but also on concrete spaces. Shedding new light on a period where reformation zeal, humanism's optimism, colonialism's greed and a proto-scientific discourse were combined to produce a series of alternative social and political paradigms, this work transports us from the shores of America to the search for the Terra Australis Incognita and the desire to find a new and better world for us.
Author | : Hendrik Smeeks |
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Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Robinsonades |
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Author | : Frederik Muller & Cie |
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Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Frederik Muller & Cie |
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Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Frederik Muller |
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Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : America |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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Total Pages | : 1328 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : American literature |
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Author | : Library of Congress. Copyright Office |
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Total Pages | : 1316 |
Release | : 1922 |
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : English philology |
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