Early Modern Visions of Space

Dorothea Heitsch is teaching professor in French & Francophone Studies in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of two monographs, Practising Reform in Montaigne’s Essais (2000) and Writing as Medication in Early Modern France: Literary Consciousness and Medical Culture (2017). She has published numerous articles and is the co-editor of two collections on early modern topics.
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Jeremie C. Korta is visiting assistant professor of French at Miami University. He submitted his doctoral thesis, “Aesthetics of Discovery: Text, Image, and the Performance of Knowledge in the Early-Modern Book,” in 2015. His research interests lie at the intersection of history of science, book history, and performance studies.
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“Early Modern Visions of Space reaches back to the Renaissance to show how, with the advent of oceanic travel and the New Discoveries, the world late-medieval cosmographers had typified as a mirror of God’s creation becomes a mosaic of ‘singularities’. … Early Modern Visions of Space is a compass-point for future itineraries of inquiry in current and future studies of the Renaissance.”—Tom Conley, Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures

“All well chosen and expertly edited, the essays are finely honed in their methods and vocabularies, providing models for contemporary scholarship.”—James S. Baumlin, Renaissance Quarterly

“Favoring a kaleidoscopic framework over totalizing epistemic narratives, the collection draws its coherence from the mutual engagement of the authors rather than from a unified topic of discussion.”—Toni Veneri, Sixteenth Century Journal

“This volume presents many rich themes related to space, geography, and spatialization that will be fruitful for early modern French studies.”—Melanie Conroy, H-France Review