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Author:   Jaska Kainulainen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.570kg
ISBN:  

9781032829098

ISBN 10:   1032829095
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   18 August 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Ways of Seeing and Reporting Wonder 2. Taming Wonder Through Ekphrasis: Florida and Europe, 1542 and 1605 3. A Country for Old Men?: Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of Guiana 4. Wonders Travelling from China: Examples from the Settala Collection 5. Evliya Çelebi in Egypt: Self-Fashioning and the Creation of the Wondrous 6. Explaining Wonders: Kashmir in the Voyages of François Bernier 7. From Strange to Familiar: Ottoman Eyes in Paris in the Eighteenth Century 8. Wonders and Curiosities: Early Modern British Impressions of Bohemia 9. Reducing and Othering Wonder: The Work of John Green and Abbé Prévost 10. Wonders of the Night: Nocturnal Darkness as a Sensory Experience 11. Columbus, Travel and Wonder: A Decolonial Reading from Latin American Marvelous Real

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Jaska Kainulainen is a Docent of the History of Ideas at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is the author of Paolo Sarpi: A Servant of God and State (2014) and Early Jesuits and the Rhetorical Tradition (2024), along with multiple articles and book chapters.

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