Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.
Hemispheres and Stratospheres offers eight essays that address the art, literature, science, and politics of distance during the long eighteenth century. This volume celebrates the intercontinental expansiveness of Enlightenment distance culture—a culture that continues to encourage modern pursuits such as space travel, tourism, telecommunication, multiculturalism, and international research collaboration.
Kevin L. Cope is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University. Among his many books and edited collections are Criteria of Certainty, John Locke Revisited, and In and After the Beginning. He is also editor of the annual journal 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era .
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations Introduction Part I: Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far Away Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination Roger D. Lund Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone’s Architecture William Stargard Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century Bärbel Czennia Part II: Culture Over and As Distance Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe Brijraj Singh Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, an Indian Transnationalist Chandrava Chakravarty Part III: The Nature of Distance New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity Rachel Mann Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities Kevin L. Cope Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research Phyllis Thompson Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
List of Illustrations Introduction Part I: Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far Away Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination Roger D. Lund Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone’s Architecture William Stargard Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century Bärbel Czennia Part II: Culture Over and As Distance Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe Brijraj Singh Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, an Indian Transnationalist Chandrava Chakravarty Part III: The Nature of Distance New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity Rachel Mann Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities Kevin L. Cope Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research Phyllis Thompson Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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