books.google.co.uk - In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition....http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Curiosity.html?id=JY5WgEAZ-6kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCuriosity
