Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international enlightenment / edited by Kevin L Cope.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cope, Kevin Lee, editor.

Series:

Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enlightenment.

Geographical perception in literature.

Geography in art.

Arts, Modern--18th century--History.

Arts, Modern.

Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania : Bucknell University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68448-205-4

OCLC:

1257323778