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Hemispheres and Stratospheres : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment / ed. by Kevin L. Cope.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850Publisher: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (261 p.) : 23 b-w imagesContent type:
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  • 9781684482054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.42 23
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  • NX650.G46 H46 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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