The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic
voyage in the seventeenth century. With the rise of the New Astronomy,
there equally was a resurgence of the cosmic voyage in fiction.
Various models of the universe were reimagined in prose form. Most of
these voyages explore imagined versions of a world in the moon, such
as the cosmic voyages by Johannes Kepler, Francis Godwin and Savinien
Cyrano de Bergerac. In Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, an
eponymous imaginary planet is introduced. The book analyses the
world-building of cosmic voyages by combining theories of
world-building with contemporary concepts from early modern
literature. It shows how imaginary worlds were created in early modern
prose literature.
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ISBN
9783631873434
Publisert
2022
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Peter Lang
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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