1st Edition
Travel and Wonder in the Early Modern World Representations, Descriptions and Uses of the Unfamiliar
1. Introduction: Ways of Seeing and Reporting Wonder
Jaska Kainulainen
2. Taming Wonder Through Ekphrasis: Florida and Europe, 1542 and 1605
María Juliana Gandini
3. A Country for Old Men?: Wondrous Gerontocracy in Sir Walter Ralegh’s The Discoverie of Guiana
William Glover
4. Wonders Travelling from China: Examples from the Settala Collection
Dinu Luca
5. Evliya Çelebi in Egypt: Self-Fashioning and the Creation of the Wondrous
Mahmoud Abdelhamid M. A. Khalifa
6. Explaining Wonders: Kashmir in the Voyages of François Bernier
Ioana Manea
7. From Strange to Familiar: Ottoman Eyes in Paris in the Eighteenth Century
Ipek Bozkaya
8. Wonders and Curiosities: Early Modern British Impressions of Bohemia
Hana Ferencová
9. Reducing and Othering Wonder: The Work of John Green and Abbé Prévost
Antoine Eche
10. Wonders of the Night: Nocturnal Darkness as a Sensory Experience
Susanna Lahtinen
11. Columbus, Travel and Wonder: A Decolonial Reading from Latin American Marvelous Real
María Isabel Gaviria
Biography
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.
