Curious Knowledge

  • Michael A. Salmon (Editor), Peter Marren (Editor) and Basil Harley (Editor)
    The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and their Collectors. University of California Press
  • Barbara M. Benedict
    Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry. University of Chicago Press
  • Colin Blakemore (Editor) and Sheila Jennett (Editor)
    The Oxford Companion to the Body. Oxford University Press
Reviewed by Rachel Poliquin
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This review “Curious Knowledge” originally appeared in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 115-118.

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