Curiosity : a cultural history of early modern inquiry / Barbara M. Benedict.

• 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.

• "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. 

Ämnesord

Curiosities and wonders in literature.  (LCSH)

Collectors and collecting in literature.  (LCSH)

Curiosity in literature.  (LCSH)

Monsters in literature.  (LCSH)

Museums in literature.  (LCSH)

English literature  -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Literature and science  -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- Great Britain -- History. (LCSH)

Literature, Modern  -- english (MeSH)

Literature, Modern  -- history. (MeSH)

Curiosités et merveilles dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Collections dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Curiosité dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Monstres dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Musées dans la littérature.  (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- 17e siècle -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature anglaise  -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature et sciences  -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

Littérature et société  -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

15.70 history of Europe.  (bcl)

18.05 English literature.  (bcl)

Collectors and collecting in literature.  (fast)

Curiosities and wonders in literature.  (fast)

Curiosity in literature.  (fast)

English literature.  (fast)

Literature and science.  (fast)

Literature and society.  (fast)

Monsters in literature.  (fast)

Museums in literature.  (fast)

Geschichte  (gnd)

Kuriosität  (gnd)

Literatur  (gnd)

Neugier  (gnd)

Neugier  (gnd)

Culturele aspecten.  (gtt)

Curiosa.  (gtt)

Mentaliteitsgeschiedenis.  (gtt)

Nieuwsgierigheid.  (gtt)

Sociale normen.  (gtt)

Curiosities and wonders in literature.  (nli)

Curiosity in literature.  (nli)

Collectors and collecting in literature.  (nli)

Monsters in literature.  (nli)

Museums in literature.  (nli)

English literature  -- Early modern. (fast)

English literature  -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. (nli)

English literature  -- 18th century -- History and criticism. (nli)

English literature  -- 19th century -- History and criticism. (nli)

Literature and society  -- Great Britain -- History. (nli)

Literature and science  -- Great Britain -- History. (nli)

Great Britain.  (fast)

Englisch.  (swd)

1500-1899  (fast)

Genre

Criticism, interpretation, etc.  (fast)

History.  (fast)

Personnamn

Englisch, ...

Klassifikation

820.9353 (DDC)

15.70 (bcl)

18.05 (bcl)

HG 431 (rvk)

HK 1091 (rvk)

HK 1031 (rvk)