Francis Bacon's New Atlantis and the Alterity of the New World

How is the alterity of New World marvels made intelligible to Old World audiences? This paper addresses the question by investigating the philosophical work performed by early modern utopian literature and its appropriation of travel writing's rhetoric of marvels. I argue that Francis Bacon...

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Main Author: Cowan, Jacqueline L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2011
In: Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 4, Pages: 407-421
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