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Peripheral wonders : nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco
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Peripheral wonders : nature, knowledge, and enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco / Margaret R. Ewalt.
ISBN
9780838756898 (alk. paper)
0838756891 (alk. paper)
Published
Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, c2008.
Physical Description
258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 04, 2009
Series
The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
Bibliography
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.
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