Hemispheres and Stratospheres : : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment.
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. Throug...
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Place / Publishing House: | Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (252 p.) :; 23 b-w images |
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Table of Contents:
- 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