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Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry
Curiosity A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry Author:Barbara M. Benedict "Pithy and wide-ranging. . . . This study provides a fresh new lens through which to reinvestigate the whole of early modern English literature."?Library Journal — In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often d... more »epicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.« less