TY - BOOK AU - Chakravarty,Chandrava AU - Cope,Kevin L. AU - Czennia,Bärbel AU - Lund,Roger D. AU - Mann,Rachel AU - Singh,Brijraj AU - Stargard,William AU - Thompson,Phyllis TI - Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment T2 - Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 SN - 9781684482054 AV - NX650.G46 H46 2020 U1 - 700/.42 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Lewisburg, PA PB - Bucknell University Press KW - Arts, Modern KW - 18th century KW - History KW - Enlightenment KW - Geographical perception in literature KW - Geography in art KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / General KW - bisacsh KW - distance, space, extension, travel, communication, collaboration, exchange, landscape, garden, astronomy, voyage, science, library, India, Italy, England, Britain, Europe, History of science, literature, philosophy, theology, art, architecture, literary criticism, aviation N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment --; Part One. Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far-Away --; 1. Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination --; 2. Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone’s Architecture --; 3. Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century --; Part Two. Culture over and as Distance --; 4. Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe --; 5. Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, the Indian Transnationalist --; Part Three. The Nature of Distance --; 6. New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity --; 7. Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities --; 8. Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research --; Acknowledgment --; Bibliography --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press UR - https://doi.org/10.36019/9781684482054 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781684482054 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781684482054/original ER -