Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 3
4. Chapter One. ‘Believing and Not Believing’: Shakespeare and the Archaeology of Wonder 12
5. Chapter Two. Philosophical Tours of the Universe in British Poetry, 1700–1729, Or, The Soaring Muse 30
6. Chapter Three. Marino and the Meraviglia 63
7. Chapter Four. I Would Rather Drown, Than Not Find New Worlds 73
8. Chapter Five. Truth and Wonder in Naples circa 1640 85
9. Chapter Six. ‘Particolar gusto e diletto alle orecchie’: Listening in the Early Seicento 106
10. Chapter Seven. From Liturgy to Literature: Prayer and Play in the Early Russian Baroque 122
11. Chapter Eight. Reconciling Divine and Political Authority in Racine’s Esther 138
12. Chapter Nine. Apostles and Apostates: The Court of Peter the Great as a Chivalrous Religious Order 159
13. Chapter Ten. Self-Knowledge and the Advantages of Concealment: Pierre Nicole’s ‘On Self-Knowledge’ 193
14. Chapter Eleven. The Baroque Social Bond in the Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz 208
15. Chapter Twelve. A Different Kind of Wonder? Women’s Writing in Early Modern Spain 229
16. Contributors 245
17. Index 249