« He onely reades those charactars, where time hath eaten out the letters »: du vain compilateur au fin collectionneur
This article deals with the representation of curious men within the literary corpus of seventeenth-century English character-books. It studies the ways in which such representations reflected and contributed to the changing perception of « curiosity » throughout the century. By supplanting the bibl...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/466 |