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Peripheral wonders : nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco
- Title
- Peripheral wonders : nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco / Margaret R. Ewalt.
- Author
- Ewalt, Margaret R., 1970-
- Publication
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
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Details
- Description
- 258 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Pathways to modernity -- Father Gumilla's textual cabinet of curiosities, missionary authority, and rhetoric of wonder -- Colonization, commerce, and conversions : mapping the economic and evangelical values of the Orinoco -- The Jesuits and an eclectic Enlightenment : mediating knowledge and Catholicism -- ¡Oh monstruo, oh bestia! : pathways to knowledge in El Orinoco ilustrado -- Conclusion: The legacy of Joseph Gumilla's El Orinoco ilustrado.
- Call Number
- JFE 09-1906
- ISBN
- 9780838756898 (alk. paper)
- 0838756891 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2008013035
- OCLC
- 220097405
- Author
- Ewalt, Margaret R., 1970-
- Title
- Peripheral wonders : nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco / Margaret R. Ewalt.
- Imprint
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 236-249) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 09-1906