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Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion.

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"Schoenenbergers scholarship is valuable not only to Defoe studies, but also to the intellectual history of the eighteenth century." James Hamby, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30/1 (2019)

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      Publisher: Transcript Verlag
      Publication Date: 08/12/2021
      ISBN13: 9783837637755, 978-3837637755
      ISBN10: 3837637751
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Daniel Defoe's work displays a keen interest in stories of supernatural encounters. Once considering how one might prove supernatural occurrences and whether one can trust eyewitness accounts, Defoe demonstrates that more is at stake. Like his contemporaries, Defoe wonders about the range of scientific insight, and about the moral and epistemological ramifications of unchallenged trust and faith. His transformations of the supernatural probe the boundaries of knowledge and evidence and play with the limits of cognition, emphasizing the inseparability of mind and emotion.

      Trade Review
      "Schoenenbergers scholarship is valuable not only to Defoe studies, but also to the intellectual history of the eighteenth century." James Hamby, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 30/1 (2019)

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