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Travel and experience in early modern English literature

This monograph is the culmination of a decade’s research. Because it explores the cultural debate between theoretical versus experiential forms of knowledge it necessitated the study of a wide range of discourses (literary, pedagogical, scientific, philosophical, etc.) across a broad chronological span (the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century). My chapter on the new science involved the study of an extensive range of primary texts, many of them unavailable in electronic resources. Engaging with the vast body of critical material on the new science and on travel writing was another labour-intensive and time-consuming aspect of this monograph.