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024 7 _a10.1515/9783110722048
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9783110722048
035 _a(DE-B1597)570962
035 _a(OCoLC)1250482896
040 _aDE-B1597
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082 0 4 _a820.9/353
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBroders, Simone
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Age of Curiosity :
_bThe Neural Network of an Idea in Eighteenth-Century English Literature /
_cSimone Broders.
264 1 _aBerlin ;
_aBoston :
_bDe Gruyter,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (X, 316 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aBuchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ,
_x0340-5435 ;
_v72
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tScribal Abbreviations --
_tTables and Illustrations --
_tAcknowledgements --
_tPreface: Networking the Age of Curiosity: Unmasking the Myth --
_t1 Original Sin or Secret of Happiness? An Introduction to Curiosity --
_t2 “The Thinking Animal”: Lovejoy’s History of Ideas --
_t3 Methodology of the Study --
_t4 Curiosity: Origins of the Debate --
_t5 Curiosity Across Different Media --
_t6 Agents of Curiosity and the ‘New Science’ --
_t7 Secret Chambers, Hidden Chests, and the Mysterious Self: Objects of Curiosity in Romanticism --
_t8 Conclusion: Legitimacy of Curiosity in the Eighteenth Century and Beyond --
_tWorks Cited --
_tDictionaries, Thesauri --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aChallenging the ‘success story’ of curiosity from original sin to intellectual virtue, this study uses an innovative methodological approach to the history of ideas as a non-teleological neural network based on current research in information technology and neurophysiology. The network offers a dynamic alternative to the ‘development’ of curiosity within the progress-oriented mythology of the Enlightenment, emphasizing the oscillation and interaction of ideas within the processes of their construction, as well as exposing the power relations behind them. The text corpus focuses on enactments of curiosity in English literature of the 'Long' Eighteenth Century (c. 1680-1818), such as transgression of boundaries, breach of taboo, gendered curiosity, sensationalism, or academic endeavour, bringing together a variety of examples from all major genres. The Age of Curiosity contributes to current debates on a post-Foucauldian renewal of Lovejoy’s history of ideas in Enlightenment studies, exploring both curiosity as an indispensable trait for the search of answers to the fundamental yet unresolved questions of ‘identity’ or ‘truth’, and its potential as cura, the care for others and the world.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aCreation (Literary, artistic, etc.).
650 0 _aCuriosities and wonders in literature.
650 0 _aCuriosity in literature.
650 0 _aCuriosity.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y18th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aIdea (Philosophy).
650 0 _aNeural networks (Neurobiology).
650 4 _aAufklärung.
650 4 _aEnglische Literatur.
653 _aEnlightenment.
653 _aLong Eighteenth Century.
653 _acuriosity.
653 _anetwork theory.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722048
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110722048
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