Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / / edited by Kevin L Cope

• Pubblicazione: Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 700.42
• Soggetto topico: Enlightenment; Geographical perception in literature; Geography in art; Arts, Modern - 18th century - History; Literature, Modern - 18th century - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: 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
• Persona (resp. second.): CopeKevin Lee
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Hemispheres and stratospheres
• ISBN: 1-68448-205-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818721703321
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