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Format: 1 online resource (263 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 1-68448-205-4

Series Statement: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850

Content: 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.

Note: 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

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-68448-201-1

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-68448-202-X

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

DOI: 10.36019/9781684482054

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