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Curiosity : A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry
Overview
"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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- ISBN-13: 9780226042640
- ISBN-10: 0226042642
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press
- Publish Date: August 2002
- Dimensions: 9.16 x 6.07 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.96 pounds
- Page Count: 296
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