The eighteenth centuries : global networks of enlightenment / edited by David T. Gies and Cynthia Wall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gies, David Thatcher, editor.

Wall, Cynthia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--History--18th century.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville, [Virginia] ; London, [England] : University of Virginia Press, 2018.

Summary:

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period's breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.

Contents:

Enlightenment, some assembly required / Brad Pasanek and Chad Wellmon

An inventory of the estate of William Strahan in 1759 / Michael Pickard

Understanding an obscure text : "The fortunate foundlings" and the limits of interdisciplinarity / Patricia Meyer Spacks

How long does blood last? : degeneration as blanqueamiento in the Americas / Ruth Hill

Thomas Jefferson : breeding and buying horses, connecting family, friends and neighbors / Carrie B. Douglass

The Jamaican plantation : industrial, global, contested / Louis P. Nelson

Emotional geographies : Watteau and the fate of women / Mary D. Sheriff

Painting New England in the Dutch West Indies : John Greenwood's "Sea captains carousing in Surinam" / Katelyn D. Crawford

Mozart and the American Revolution / Pierpaolo Polzonetti

The drama of marriage in eighteenth-century Venice : Carlo Goldoni's "La locandiera" / Adrienne Ward

Performances of suffering and the stagecraft of sympathy / Jennifer Reed

The aesthetics of excess : rococo vestiges of "Tartuffe" in Isla's "Father Gerundio" / Casey R. Eriksen.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 20, 2018).

ISBN:

0-8139-4076-1

OCLC:

1020790707