书目名称 | Performing Factuality in John Dunton’s Athenian Cosmos |
副标题 | The Rites of Truth |
编辑 | Jaroslaw Jasenowski |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/744/743936/743936.mp4 |
概述 | Explores the fundamental epistemological shifts which characterised the seventeenth century.Brings together different ways of examining the interplay of factuality and fictionality in the early modern |
丛书名称 | Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700 |
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描述 | .Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility. Tracing the numerous ways in which authors such as John Dunton, Charles Gildon, François Perreaud, Thomas Brown, or Joseph Addison and Richard Steele deliberately toyed with the truth effects generated by their participation in discourses such as proto-science, medicine, philosophy, law and religion, this monograph argues that truth is not a monolithic constant. .Performing Factuality. proposes that truth is protean, ever- emerging from a simultaneously conventionalised yet constantly mutating set of practices, something which not simply is but something which is actively done. This performative dimension finds one of its most powerful examples in the case of Dunton and his handful of collaborators working on the Athenian Mercury, which set the tone in periodical publication for decades if not centuries to come.. |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | John Dunton; Athenian Cosmos; Periodical Publication; Athenian Society; Coffeehouse Culture; Restoration; |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62450-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-62452-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-62450-6Series ISSN 2634-5897 Series E-ISSN 2634-5900 |
issn_series | 2634-5897 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |