Travel Narratives, the New Science, and Literary Discourse, 1569-1750

Judy Hayden is Associate Professor of English and Chair of English and Writing at the University of Tampa. She has published extensively on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British literature.

Contents: Intersections and cross-fertilization, Judy A. Hayden; Part 1 Inquiry and Fact: Directing the Course of Knowledge: Inquiries, heads and directions: orienting early modern travel, Daniel Carey; Forming knowledge: natural philosophy and English travel writing, Julia Schleck; Geography and authority in the Royal Society's instructions for travelers, Jason H. Pearl. Part 2 New Science, New Worlds: Traditions of the monstrous in William Dampier's New Holland, Geraldine Barnes; Writing 'science fiction' in the shadow of war: bodily transgressions in Cavendish's Blazing World, Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker; 'As far as a woman's reasoning may go': Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, and the new science, Judy A. Hayden; Roger Phequewell, colonial man of science: re-reading imperial fantasy in Merryland, Marcia Nichols. Part 3 Charting Knowledge, Mapping Encounters: Telescopic voyages: Galileo and the invention of lunar cartography, Howard Marchitello; Defoe the geographer: redefining the wonderful in A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain, Jesse Edwards. Part 4 The Curiosity of Travel: Spectating science in the early modern collection, Barbara M. Benedict; Selected works cited; Index.