Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder John Rawls Written by three of today's

Written by three of today's most respected geographers

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Eighteenth-Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder John Rawls Written by three of today'sA footprint materializes mysteriously on a deserted shore; a giant helmet falls from the sky; a traveler awakens to find his horse dangling from a church steeple. Eighteenth century fiction brims with moments such as these, in which the prosaic rubs up against the marvelous. While it is a truism that the period's literature is distinguished by its realism and air of probability, Eighteenth Century Fiction and the Reinvention of Wonder argues that