Peripheral wonders
Subtitle: nature, knowledge, and Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Orinoco
By: Margaret R. Ewalt.
Series: The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; Bucknell Univ Pr
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780838756898
Subjects: Gumilla, Joseph, -- d. 1750; Jesuits -- Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia); Enlightenment -- Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia); Orinoco River Valley (Venezuela and Colombia) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Pathways to modernity; title: Father Gumilla's textual cabinet of curiosities, missionary authority, and rhetoric of wonder; title: Colonization, commerce, and conversions : mapping the economic and evangelical values of the Orinoco; title: The Jesuits and an eclectic Enlightenment : mediating knowledge and Catholicism; title: Oh monstruo, Oh bestia! pathways to knowledge in El Orinoco ilustrado; title: Conclusion : The legacy of Joseph Gumilla's El Orinoco ilustrado.