Yasmin Haskell

Broschiertes Buch

Prescribing Ovid

The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

Beschreibung

Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.

Autor

Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia, Perth, since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council's new Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry (2003) and winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781472587503
• ISBN-10: 1472587502
• Artikelnr.: 40911969