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T1 The Man in the Moone: Godwin¿s Narrative Experiment and the Scientific Revolution
A1 Monterrey Rodríguez, José Tomás
K1 novela inglesa del Renacimiento
K1 Francis Godwin
K1 géneros narrativos
K1 historiografía de antigüedades
K1 antropología teológica
K1 Tenerife
AB In his innovative voyage to the Moon, Bishop Godwin, contrary to his Aristotelian forma-tion, portrayed the revolutionary cosmology of his age taking into account the equallyrevolutionary tenets of the historiography practiced by Camden. I shall argue that thiscelestial journey constituted a coherent response to the new scientific procedures of learn-ing and knowing. Godwin carefully selected the narrative elements to achieve an impres-sion of authenticity and named his hero after Domenico Gundisalvo to indicate a new stagein the development of human knowledge. The story, loosely introduced as an “essay offancy,” explored serious topics, such as Godwin’s anthropological ideas in relation to extra-terrestrial societies or to the man of science conceived as the new Adam. It inaugurated asingular type of writing, whose normal evolution was truncated by a number of circum-stances, including the fact that it was believed to be a Spanish story.
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