Evelyn Koch holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Bayreuth and is currently working as a lecturer in British literature and culture at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include early modern and 19th-century literature, as well as fantasy and horror fiction.

• world-building – cosmic voyage – early modern prose – cosmopoeisis – inventio – evidentia – Francis Godwin – Kepler’s Somnium – Margaret Cavendish – Blazing World – Cyrano de Bergerac – New Astronomy – travel narratives – utopia

Evelyn Koch holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Bayreuth and is currently working as a lecturer in British literature and culture at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include early modern and 19th-century literature, as well as fantasy and horror fiction.

• world-building – cosmic voyage – early modern prose – cosmopoeisis – inventio – evidentia – Francis Godwin – Kepler’s Somnium – Margaret Cavendish – Blazing World – Cyrano de Bergerac – New Astronomy – travel narratives – utopia

Evelyn Koch holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Bayreuth and is currently working as a lecturer in British literature and culture at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her research interests include early modern and 19th-century literature, as well as fantasy and horror fiction.

• world-building – cosmic voyage – early modern prose – cosmopoeisis – inventio – evidentia – Francis Godwin – Kepler’s Somnium – Margaret Cavendish – Blazing World – Cyrano de Bergerac – New Astronomy – travel narratives – utopia