World-Building and the New Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Prose Fictions of Cosmic Voyage

The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic voyage in the seventeenth century. It analyses the world-building of cosmic voyages by combining theories of world-building with contemporary concepts from early modern literature and shows how imaginary worlds were created in early modern prose literature.

Autorentext

Evelyn Koch holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Bayreuth and is currently working as a lecturer in British literature and culture at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include early modern and 19th-century literature, as well as fantasy and horror fiction.

Inhalt

world-building cosmic voyage early modern prose cosmopoeisis inventio evidentia Francis Godwin Kepler's Somnium Margaret Cavendish Blazing World Cyrano de Bergerac New Astronomy travel narratives utopia