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Anne M. Thell is assistant professor of English literature at National University of Singapore.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Imagining Empiricism
Chapter 1: Lady Phoenix: Motion, Imagination, and Cavendish’s Blazing World
Chapter 2: Pirate Scientists: Narrative versus Natural History in the “New Voyages” of the 1690s
Chapter 3: “A Prospect of the World on the other Side”: Defoe’s New Voyage and Virtual Travel Experience
Chapter 4: Narrative Authority and Ideal Presence in John Hawkesworth’s Account of the Voyages
Chapter 5: Johnson’s Journey and the Terror of Sight
Epilogue: Imagining Perception
Bibliography
Index
About the Author