Culture of Accidents: Unexpected Knowledges in Early Modern England

by Michael Witmore

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Collapsing buildings, unexpected meetings in the marketplace, monstrous births, encounters with pirates at sea--these and other unforeseen "accidents" at the turn of the seventeenth century in England acquired unprecedented significance in the early modern philosophical and cultural imagination. Drawing on intellectual history, cultural criticism, and rhetorical theory, this book chronicles the narrative transformation of "accident" from a philosophical...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804735565

ISBN13:9780804735568

Release Date:September 2002

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"

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