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- catalog abstract ""What kind of person is curious? What makes a person or thing an object of curiosity? From Gulliver to Frankenstein, from detectives to hot air balloonists, curious and inquiring characters have been portrayed as themselves curiosities, as social upstarts, and as spectacles to behold. With Curiosity, Barbara Benedict offers a new cultural history of curiosity as it shaped English writing from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries." "Drawing on novels both popular and obscure, ghost stories, travel narratives, trial transcripts, journalism, poems, and pornography, Benedict argues that writers of this period depicted curiosity as an unsavory form of cultural ambition. Curiosity, we learn, was persistently seen as a king of transgression that allowed curious people - scientists, collectors, and prayers of all sorts - to escape their natural places and usurp institutions, meanings, and bodies for private use." "Finely illustrated and the first of its kind, Curiosity is a broad study of modern inquiry that explores the way forbidden topics like the occult, sexuality, gender, and the origin of power became topics of public investigation."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12027042.
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""What kind of person is curious? What makes a person or thing an object of curiosity? From Gulliver to Frankenstein, from detectives to hot air balloonists, curious and inquiring characters have been portrayed as themselves curiosities, as social upstarts, and as spectacles to behold. With Curiosity, Barbara Benedict offers a new cultural history of curiosity as it shaped English writing from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries." "Drawing on novels both popular and obscure, ghost stories, travel narratives, trial transcripts, journalism, poems, and pornography, Benedict argues that writers of this period depicted curiosity as an unsavory form of cultural ambition. Curiosity, we learn, was persistently seen as a king of transgression that allowed curious people - scientists, collectors, and prayers of all sorts - to escape their natural places and usurp institutions, meanings, and bodies for private use." "Finely illustrated and the first of its kind, Curiosity is a broad study of modern inquiry that explores the way forbidden topics like the occult, sexuality, gender, and the origin of power became topics of public investigation."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Inspecting and spectating: Monsters, rarities, and investigators -- Regulating curiosity -- Consuming curiosity -- From the curious to the curio -- Connoisseurship in the mental cabinet -- Performing curiosity -- Transgression and ambition -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 321 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Curiosity.".
- catalog identifier "0226042634 (alk paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Curiosity.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog relation "Curiosity.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "820.9/353 21".
- catalog subject "Collectors and collecting in literature.".
- catalog subject "Curiosities and wonders in literature.".
- catalog subject "Curiosity in literature.".
- catalog subject "English literature 18th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Literature and science Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society Great Britain History.".
- catalog subject "Monsters in literature.".
- catalog subject "Museums in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR448.C87 B46 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Inspecting and spectating: Monsters, rarities, and investigators -- Regulating curiosity -- Consuming curiosity -- From the curious to the curio -- Connoisseurship in the mental cabinet -- Performing curiosity -- Transgression and ambition -- Notes -- Index.".
- catalog title "Curiosity : a cultural history of early modern inquiry / Barbara M. Benedict.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".