04036nam a22005415i 4500 978-3-031-62450-6 DE-He213 20251030112837.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240804s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031624506 978-3-031-62450-6 10.1007/978-3-031-62450-6 doi PN715-749 DSB bicssc LIT024000 bisacsh DSB thema Jasenowski, Jaroslaw. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 81911 Performing Factuality in John Dunton’s Athenian Cosmos [electronic resource] : The Rites of Truth / by Jaroslaw Jasenowski. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. VIII, 289 p. 1 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700, 2634-5900 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Canvas -- Chapter 3: Matter -- Chapter 4: The Method -- Chapter 5: The Mirror -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. Starting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility. Tracing the numerous ways in which authors such as John Dunton, Charles Gildon, François Perreaud, Thomas Brown, or Joseph Addison and Richard Steele deliberately toyed with the truth effects generated by their participation in discourses such as proto-science, medicine, philosophy, law and religion, this monograph argues that truth is not a monolithic constant. Performing Factuality proposes that truth is protean, ever-emerging from a simultaneously conventionalised yet constantly mutating set of practices, something which not simply is but something which is actively done. This performative dimension finds one of its most powerful examples in the case of Dunton and his handful of collaborators working on the Athenian Mercury, which set the tone in periodical publication for decades if not centuries to come. Jaroslaw Jasenowski is an independent scholar affiliated with the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include Documentary and Mockumentary Film, Epistolary Culture, Holocaust Studies, Victorian Popular Culture and Smell Studies. Previous publications include the co-authored article “Dragging out the Truth: Restoration Periodicals and the Textual Creation of Gendered Identities” in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 79 (2019), the co-edited Special Issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on “Restoration Epistolarity”, as well as other articles in progress. European literature Renaissance, 1450-1600. 67445 Literature, Modern 17th century. 80375 Literature History and criticism. 66499 Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. 67447 Seventeenth-Century Literature. 80376 Literary History. 66789 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031624490 Printed edition: 9783031624513 Printed edition: 9783031624520 Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700, 2634-5900 81912 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62450-6 ZDB-2-LCM ZDB-2-SXL 62240 62240