Author: Ralph MorrisPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel, a Smith at Royston in Hertfordshire, for a Course of Seventy Years
Author: Ralph MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
(A Narrative Of) the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel
Author: Ralph MorrisA Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel, a smith at Royston in Hertfortshire, for a course of seventy years. Containing, the melancholy occasion of his travels. His shipwreck with one companion on a desolate island. Their way of life. His accidental discovery of a woman for his companion. Their peopling the island. Also, a description of a most surprising engine, invented by his son Jacob, on which he flew to the moon, with some account of its inhabitants. His return ... His further excursions in search of England. His residence in Lapland, and travels to Norway, from whence he arrived at Aldborough, and further transactions till his death, in 1711. Aged 97. Illustrated with several copper plates, engraved by Mr. Boitard. Taken from his own mouth, by Mr. Ralph Morris
Author: John DANIEL (of Royston.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel
Author: Ralph MorrisPublisher:
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Category : Aeronautics in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel
Author: Ralph MorrisPublisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1625790317
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Now with an Historical Afterword by Ron MillerIncludes the original illustrations Featured in Ron Millers _The Conquest of Space Book Series.Ó Originally published in 1751, this fantasy-adventure contains one of the most detailed and best-realized spacecraft/flying machines in science fiction. It marked the transition from the fantastic and mystical means of reaching space that had preceded it and laid the foundation for the scientific verisimilitude of Poe and Verne. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
The Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel
Author: John DanielA Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventres [sic] of John Daniel
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Author: A Narrative of the Life and Astonishing Adventures of John Daniel
Author: Ralph MorrisPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Empirical Wonder
Author: Riccardo CapoferroPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783034303262
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Eighteenth-century England did not only see the rise of the novel, but also the rise of genres of what we now call the fantastic, such as imaginary voyages and apparition narratives. Combining theoretical reflection and cultural analysis, the author of this book investigates the origins, and demonstrates the formal and historical identity of a great variety of texts, which have never been considered as part of the same family. The fantastic, he argues, is an intrinsically modern mode, which uses the devices of realistic representation to describe supernatural phenomena. Its origins can be found in the seventeenth century, when the rise of modern empiricism threatened the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of traditional religious culture. The author shows how a broad range of discursive formations - demonology, providential literature, teratology, and natural philosophy - attempted to reconcile world-views that were felt to be increasingly incompatible, and traces the development of a new kind of fiction that gradually replaced them and took over their work of reconciliation. Coalescing as an autonomous system of genres, free from the restrictions of modern science and at the same time self-consciously aesthetic, the fantastic emerged as an instrument both to affirm and to transcend the empirical vision.
Castaway Bodies in the Eighteenth–Century English Robinsonade
Author: Jakub LipskiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004692916
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Exploring the metamorphoses of the body in the eighteenth-century Robinsonade as a crucial aspect of the genre’s ideologies, Castaway Bodies offers focused readings of intriguing, yet often forgotten, novels: Peter Longueville’s The English Hermit (1727), Robert Paltock’s Peter Wilkins (1751) and The Female American (1767) by an anonymous author. The book shows that by rewriting the myths of the New Adam, the Androgyne and the Amazon, respectively, these novels went beyond, though not completely counter to, the politics of conquest and mastery that are typically associated with the Robinsonade. It argues that even if these narratives could still be read as colonial fantasies, they opened a space for more consistent rejections of the imperial agenda in contemporary castaway fiction.