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World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination

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    Chapter 1 Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be” a world such as this I dreamed
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    Chapter 2 Paracelsus on the “New Creation” and Demonic Magic: Misunderstandings, Oversights, and False Accusations in His Early Reception
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    Chapter 3 Building Blocks: Imagination, Knowledge, and Passion in Agrippa von Nettesheim’s De Oculta Philosophia Libri Tres
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    Chapter 4 The Astrological Cosmos of Johannes Kepler
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    Chapter 5 A Theater of the Unseen: Athanasius Kircher’s Museum in Rome
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    Chapter 6 Fantasy Islands: Utopia , The Tempest , and New Atlantis as Places of Controlled Credulousness
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    Chapter 7 Imagination and Pleasure in the Cosmography of Thomas Burnet’s Sacred Theory of the Earth
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    Chapter 8 The Jesuit Mission to Ethiopia (1555–1634) and the Death of Prester John
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    Chapter 9 Red Sea Travelers in Mediterranean Lands: Ethiopian Scholars and Early Modern Orientalism, ca. 1500–1668
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    Chapter 10 “In manners they be rude, and monst’rous eke in fashion”: Images of Otherness in Early Modern Drama
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    Chapter 11 Icons of Atrocity: John Derricke’s Image of Irelande (1581)
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Chapter title
Introduction: “Think you there was, or ever could be” a world such as this I dreamed
Chapter number 1
Book title
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, New York, January 2010
DOI 10.1057/9780230113138_1
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-29014-7, 978-0-230-11313-8
Authors

Allison B. Kavey

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