Citizens of the World: Adapting in the Eighteenth Century

In: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850

Abstract

Nine authors from prominent universities around the world show how the adventurous thinkers, artists, and adventurers of the eighteenth-century period placed adaptation at the center of the quest for a modern civilization. The book will appeal to cultural historians, historians of science, and those interested in literary metamorphoses.