Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall |
Autore | Craciun Adriana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 909.7 |
Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 18th century
Civilization, Western - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
collecting
eighteenth-century empire exploration history of science history indigenous encounters travel writing |
ISBN |
1-4875-1849-8
1-4875-1848-X 1-4875-3154-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. Murphy -- From the monumental to the minutiae : serializing Polynesian barkcloths in eighteenth-century Britain / Billie Lythberg -- Formal encounters : education, evangelization, and the reproduction of custom in seventeenth-century Peru / Matthew Goldmark -- Stadial environmental history in the voyage narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster / Noah Heringman. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910306633803321 |
Craciun Adriana | ||
University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Curious Encounters : Voyaging, Collecting, and Making Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century / / Adriana Craciun, Mary Terrall |
Autore | Craciun Adriana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | University of Toronto Press, 2019 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 909.7 |
Collana | UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series |
Soggetto topico |
Civilization, Modern - 18th century
Civilization, Western - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma |
History
Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
collecting
eighteenth-century empire exploration history of science history indigenous encounters travel writing |
ISBN |
1-4875-1849-8
1-4875-1848-X 1-4875-3154-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. Murphy -- From the monumental to the minutiae : serializing Polynesian barkcloths in eighteenth-century Britain / Billie Lythberg -- Formal encounters : education, evangelization, and the reproduction of custom in seventeenth-century Peru / Matthew Goldmark -- Stadial environmental history in the voyage narratives of George and John Reinhold Forster / Noah Heringman. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996580170803316 |
Craciun Adriana | ||
University of Toronto Press, 2019 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
Autore | Deutsch Helen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.109/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Life (Biology) - Philosophy - History - 18th century
Matter - Philosophy - History - 18th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Deutsch, Helen / Terrall, Mary -- 1. Living with Lucretius / Kramnick, Jonathan -- 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation / Deutsch, Helen -- 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep / Chua, Kevin -- 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception / Stephanson, Raymond -- 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance / Terrall, Mary -- 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda / Harol, Corrinne -- 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity / Kang, Minsoo -- 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia / Thompson, Helen -- 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine / Williams, Elizabeth A. -- 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum / Chaplin, Simon -- 11. The Value of a Dead Body / Guerrini, Anita -- 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain / Clymer, Lorna -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462242303321 |
Deutsch Helen | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
Autore | Deutsch Helen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.109/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Life (Biology) - Philosophy - History - 18th century
Matter - Philosophy - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Living with Lucretius -- 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation -- 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep -- 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception -- 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance -- 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda -- 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity -- 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia -- 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine -- 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum -- 11. The Value of a Dead Body -- 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910785550903321 |
Deutsch Helen | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Vital matters : eighteenth-century views of conception, life, and death / / edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall |
Autore | Deutsch Helen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
Disciplina | 570.109/033 |
Soggetto topico |
Life (Biology) - Philosophy - History - 18th century
Matter - Philosophy - History - 18th century |
ISBN |
1-4426-9434-3
1-4426-9435-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Living with Lucretius -- 2. Dismantl'd Souls: The Verse Epistle, Embodied Subjectivity, and Poetic Animation -- 3. Girodet and the Eternal Sleep -- 4. Tristram Shandy and the Art of Conception -- 5. Material Impressions: Conception, Sensibility, and Inheritance -- 6. Misconceiving the Heir: Mind and Matter in the Warming Pan Propaganda -- 7. From the Man-Machine to the Automaton-Man: The Enlightenment Origins of the Mechanistic Imagery of Humanity -- 8. The 'Fair Savage': Empiricism and Essence in Sarah Fielding's The History of Ophelia -- 9. Food and Feeling: 'Digestive Force' and the Nature of Morbidity in Vitalist Medicine -- 10. The Divine Touch, or Touching Divines: John Hunter, David Hume, and the Bishop of Durham's Rectum -- 11. The Value of a Dead Body -- 12. Noticing Death: Funeral Invitations and Obituaries in Early Modern Britain -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819715103321 |
Deutsch Helen | ||
Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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