Hemispheres and Stratospheres The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment.

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"Nowhere is distance so near-at-hand as in Enlightenment culture. Whether in the telescopic surveys of early astronomers, the panoramas of painters, the diaries of travelers, the prospects of landscape architects, or the tales of novelists, distance is never far in the background of the works a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cope, Kevin L., Lund, Roger D., Stargard, William, Czennia, Bärbel, Singh, Brijraj, Chakravarty, Chandrava, Mann, Rachel, Thompson, Phyllis
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Transits (Bucknell University)
Temas:
1700-1799
Geography in art.
Geographical perception in literature.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Arts, Modern > 18th century > History.
Enlightenment.
Géographie dans l'art.
Perception géographique dans la littérature.
Littérature > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Arts > 18e siècle > Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
Arts, Modern
Enlightenment
Geographical perception in literature
Geography in art
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Editors
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment / Kevin L. Cope
  • 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 / Roger D. Lund
  • 2. Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone's Architecture / William Stargard
  • 3. Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century / Bärbel Czennia
  • PART TWO: Culture over and as Distance
  • 4. Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe / Brijraj Singh
  • 5. Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, the Indian Transnationalist / Chandrava Chakravarty
  • PART THREE: The Nature of Distance
  • 6. New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity / Rachel Mann
  • 7. Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities / Kevin L. Cope
  • 8. Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research / Phyllis Thompson
  • Acknowledgment
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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