03963oam 2200577 450 991079447480332120230124200836.01-68448-205-410.36019/9781684482054(CKB)4100000011570595(MiAaPQ)EBC6389618(DE-B1597)589259(DE-B1597)9781684482054(OCoLC)1257323778(EXLCZ)99410000001157059520210419d2020 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHemispheres and stratospheres the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment /edited by Kevin L CopeLewisburg, Pennsylvania :Bucknell University Press,[2020]©20201 online resource (263 pages) illustrationsTransits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-18501-68448-201-1 1-68448-202-X Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexRecognizing 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.EnlightenmentGeographical perception in literatureGeography in artArts, Modern18th centuryHistoryLiterature, Modern18th centuryHistory and criticismdistance, 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.Enlightenment.Geographical perception in literature.Geography in art.Arts, ModernHistory.Literature, ModernHistory and criticism.700.42Cope Kevin LeeMiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK9910794474803321Hemispheres and stratospheres3865597UNINA