Kinaesthesia and classical antiquity 1750-1820 : moved by stone / Helen Slaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Slaney, Helen, 1981- author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in classical reception

Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muscular sense.

Movement, Psychology of.

Civilization, Classical.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This books argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asia Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis. The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships.

Contents:

Introduction: The science of sensuous cognition

Part 1: Approaches

1. Emma Hamilton's Attitudes

2. Herder's 'Feeling Imagination'

3. Charlotte Eaton's Rome as Theatre

4. Goethe's 'Seeing Hand'

Part 2: Apprehensions

5. Time Travellers

6. Frankenstein's Venus

7. Belongings in Museums

Part 3: Appreciations

8. Roman Novels

9. Forever Young

10. Mary Shelley's 'Desart Ruins'

Conclusion

Bibliography

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350144057

OCLC:

1164492904

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.