LEADER 03960nam 22005655 450 001 9910878976003321 005 20250807153112.0 010 $a9783031624506$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031624490 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-62450-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31579777 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31579777 035 $a(CKB)33645684000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-62450-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933645684000041 100 $a20240804d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPerforming Factuality in John Dunton?s Athenian Cosmos $eThe Rites of Truth /$fby Jaroslaw Jasenowski 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (293 pages) 225 1 $aEarly Modern Cultural Studies 1500?1700,$x2634-5900 311 08$aPrint version: Jasenowski, Jaroslaw Performing Factuality in John Dunton's Athenian Cosmos Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031624490 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Canvas -- Chapter 3: Matter -- Chapter 4: The Method -- Chapter 5: The Mirror -- Chapter 6: Conclusion. 330 $aStarting from the fundamental epistemological shifts characterising the seventeenth century, this book explores the re-conceptualization of the notion of truth and asks how factuality, along with other truth-carrying discourses, was appropriated by a range of texts to generate credibility. Tracing the numerous ways in which authors such as John Dunton, Charles Gildon, François Perreaud, Thomas Brown, or Joseph Addison and Richard Steele deliberately toyed with the truth effects generated by their participation in discourses such as proto-science, medicine, philosophy, law and religion, this monograph argues that truth is not a monolithic constant. Performing Factuality proposes that truth is protean, ever-emerging from a simultaneously conventionalised yet constantly mutating set of practices, something which not simply is but something which is actively done. This performative dimension finds one of its most powerful examples in the case of Dunton and his handful of collaborators working on the Athenian Mercury, which set the tone in periodical publication for decades if not centuries to come. Jaroslaw Jasenowski is an independent scholar affiliated with the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Erlangen?Nuremberg, Germany. His research interests include Documentary and Mockumentary Film, Epistolary Culture, Holocaust Studies, Victorian Popular Culture and Smell Studies. Previous publications include the co-authored article ?Dragging out the Truth: Restoration Periodicals and the Textual Creation of Gendered Identities? in Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 79 (2019), the co-edited Special Issue of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies on ?Restoration Epistolarity?, as well as other articles in progress. 410 0$aEarly Modern Cultural Studies 1500?1700,$x2634-5900 606 $aEuropean literature$yRenaissance, 1450-1600 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y17th century 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature 606 $aSeventeenth-Century Literature 606 $aLiterary History 615 0$aEuropean literature 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 14$aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature. 615 24$aSeventeenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aLiterary History. 676 $a828.40809353 700 $aJasenowski$b Jaroslaw$01764972 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910878976003321 996 $aPerforming Factuality in John Dunton's Athenian Cosmos$94206217 997 $aUNINA