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Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / / edited by Kevin L Cope
| Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / / edited by Kevin L Cope |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 700.42 |
| Collana | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 |
| 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 |
| ISBN | 1-68448-205-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910794474803321 |
| Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / / edited by Kevin L Cope
| Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / / edited by Kevin L Cope |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 700.42 |
| Collana | Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850 |
| 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 |
| ISBN | 1-68448-205-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818721703321 |
| Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : , : Bucknell University Press, , [2020] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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