Hemispheres and Stratospheres : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment / ed. by Kevin L. Cope.
Material type:
- 9781684482054
- Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- History
- Enlightenment
- Geographical perception in literature
- Geography in art
- Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism
- LITERARY CRITICISM / General
- 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
- 700/.42 23
- NX650.G46 H46 2020
- online - DeGruyter
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Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online | online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Online access | Not for loan (Accesso limitato) | Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users | (dgr)9781684482054 |
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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