Bayreuther Beiträge Zur Literaturwissenschaft: World-Building and the New Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Prose Fictions of Cosmic Voyage (Hardcover)

The book looks at ways of world-building in prose fictions of cosmic voyage in the seventeenth century. It analyses the world-building of cosmic voyages by combining theories of world-building with contemporary concepts from early modern literature and shows how imaginary worlds were created in early modern prose literature.