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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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
ISBN
1-68448-205-4
OCLC
1257323778
Doi
10.36019/9781684482054
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