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Antiquity and Enlightenment culture : new approaches and perspectives /
"This volume represents the first move towards a comprehensive overview of the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. Eschewing a narrow focus on any one theme, it seeks to understand eighteenth-century engagements with antiquity on their own terms, focusing on the contexts, questions, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Metaforms ;
v. 17. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Part 1 Danger and Delight: Reading Ancient Literature
- Chapter 1 Pseudohistory and Metafiction in the Eighteenth Century
- 1 Pseudohistory
- 2 Metafiction
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Chapter 2 The Philosophy of Ancient Poetry: Greek Poetic Pessimism in the Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grèce
- 1 The Greek Ideal and Greek Pessimism between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
- 2 Anacharsis and Philocles: Greek Pessimistic Thought and the Ode to Happiness
- 3 A Time of Transition
- Bibliography
- Part 2 Antiquity on Display: Travellers, Grand Tourists, Collectors
- Chapter 3 The "Nymphs" of the Fountain of Arethusa and the Representation of Classical Sicily in Travel Works, c.1770-1860
- 1 The Fountain of Arethusa
- 2 Changes in Travel Narratives
- 3 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 4 Antiquity and the Grand Tour Portrait: Rethinking the Significance of Pompeo Batoni's Use of Classical Sculpture, 1753-1762
- 1 Early Examples of Classical Insertions
- 2 Rethinking the Significance of Batoni's Use of Antiquity
- 3 Charles John Crowle (1738-1811)
- 4 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Chapter 5 Hidden Dimensions and Elusive Forms in Johan Zoffany's Charles Townley and Friends in his Library at Park Street, Westminster, 1781-1783, 1798
- 1 The Painting during Townley's Lifetime
- 2 Hidden Dimensions and Elusive Forms
- 3 The Painting after Townley's Death
- 4 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Part 3 Antiquity and National Identity: Scotland and Greece
- Chapter 6 The Scottish Heresy: George Mackenzie's Pelagian Biographies
- 1 Recovering Mackenzie
- 2 The Lives and Characters
- 3 (Semi-)Pelagianism in Early Modern Thought
- 4 Mackenzie the (Semi-)Pelagian
- Bibliography
- Chapter 7 Rome in Caledonia: Eighteenth-Century Interpretations of Scotland's Ancient Past
- Bibliography
- Chapter 8 The Enlightenment and the Teaching of Ancient Greek Grammar in Greece
- 1 Eighteenth-Century Greece: National Identity, Language, and Pedagogy
- 2 A Forerunner of the Revolution: the Project of Rhigas Velestinlis
- 3 The Greek Enlightenment
- 4 Neophytos Vamvas (1776-1855): Teacher of the Nation
- 5 Teaching in Greece before and after the Enlightenment: Vamvas's Account
- 6 Konstantinos Koumas (1777-1836): a History of Greek Education
- 7 Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Part 4 Antiquity in Moral Philosophy and Political Thought
- Chapter 9 Hume, Cicero, and Eighteenth-Century Moral Philosophy
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Chapter 10 Rousseau's Rome and Political Pragmatism
- 1 Rousseau's Antiquity: a Nostalgic Attack against Modernity?
- 2 Rousseau's Antiquities and his Definition of Liberty
- 3 Rome's Exemplary Assemblies
- 4 Rome: a Miracle from History