Fontenelles Use Of Imagery In The Entretiens Sur La Pluralite Des Mondes
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Eve's Enlightenment
Author | : Catherine M. Jaffe |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2009-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807142603 |
Eve's portrayal in the Bible as a sinner and a temptress seemed to represent -- and justify -- women's inferior position in society for much of history. During the Enlightenment, women challenged these traditional gender roles by joining the public sphere as writers, intellectuals, philanthropists, artists, and patrons of the arts. Some sought to reclaim Eve by recasting her as a positive symbol of women's abilities and intellectual curiosity. In Eve's Enlightenment, leading scholars in the fields of history, art history, literature, and psychology discuss how Enlightenment philosophies compared to women's actual experiences in Spain and Spanish America during the period. Relying on newspaper accounts, poetry, polemic, paintings, and saints' lives, this diverse group of contributors discuss how evolving legal, social, and medical norms affected Hispanic women and how art and literature portrayed them. Contributors such as historians Mónica Bolufer Peruga and María Victoria López-Cordón Cortezo, art historian Janis A. Tomlinson, and literary critic Rebecca Haidt also examine the contributions these women's experiences make to a transatlantic understanding of the Enlightenment. A common theme unites many of the essays: while Enlightenment reformers demanded rational equality for men and women, society increasingly emphasized sentiment and passion as defining characteristics of the female sex, leading to deepening contradictions. Despite clear gaps between Enlightenment ideals and women's experiences, however, the contributors agree that the women of Spain and Spanish America not only took part in the social and cultural transformations of the time but also exerted their own power and influence to help guide the Spanish-speaking world toward modernity. The first interdisciplinary collection published in English, Eve's Enlightenment offers a wealth of information for scholars of eighteenth-century Spanish history, literature, art history, and women's studies. An introduction by editors Catherine M. Jaffe and Elizabeth Franklin Lewis provides helpful historical and contextual information.
imagining the unimaginable
Author | : Ladina Bezzola Lambert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004484884 |
How is it possible to imagine what is unknown and therefore unimaginable? How can the unimaginable be represented? On what materials do such representations rely? These questions lie at the heart of this book. Copernican theory redefined the role and importance of the imagination even as it implied the moment of its crisis. Based on this claim, Ladina Bezzola Lambert analyzes seventeenth-century astronomical texts – particularly descriptions of the moon and treatises written in support of the theory of the plurality of worlds – to show how early modern astronomers questioned the role of the imagination as a tool to visualize the unknown, but also how, pressed by the need to support their theories with convincing descriptions of other potential worlds, they sought to overcome the limitations of the imagination with a sophisticated rhetoric and techniques more commonly associated with poetic writing. The limitations of the imagination are at once a problem that all of the texts discussed struggle with and their recurrent theme. In the first and last chapter, the focus shifts to a more explicitly literary context: Ariosto’s Orlando furioso and the work of Italo Calvino. The change of focus from science to literature and from the narratives of the past to contemporary ones serves to emphasize that the issues relating to the imagination, its limitations and creative means, are basically the same both in science and literature and that they are still relevant today.
The Making of Modern Romanian Culture
Author | : Alex Drace-Francis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005-11-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857714570 |
How do literacy and the development of literary culture promote the development of a national identity? This well-researched and readable book explores the rise of Romanian-language literary, educational and printing institutions in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, bringing out a story that has not been fully explored in English. In twenty concise yet scholarly chapters, Alex Drace-Francis builds on and engages with current knowledge about print culture, modernization, national identity and state formation, to make an original contribution to ongoing debates in these areas.
The Power of Kings
Author | : Paul Kléber Monod |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2001-08-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300090666 |
This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.
Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes
Author | : Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1811 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science
Author | : Sally Shuttleworth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1987-03-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521335843 |
This study explores the ways in which George Eliot's involvement with contemporary scientific theory affected the evolution of her fiction. Drawing on the work of such theorists as Comte, Spencer, Lewes, Bain, Carpenter, von Hartmann and Bernard, Dr Shuttleworth shows how, as Eliot moved from Adam Bede to Daniel Deronda, her conception of a conservative, static and hierarchical model of society gave way to a more dynamic model of social and psychological life.
Machine Imagery in French Literature to 1900: the Music of the Cogs
Author | : Harold Ayres Wylie (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : |
Faustus and the Promises of the New Science, C. 1580-1730
Author | : Christa Knellwolf King |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754661337 |
Having identified the literary origins of the Faustus legend in the late sixteenth-century German Faust Book and its English translation, this book argues that the Faustus typology emerged as a vehicle for discussing morality and beliefs. This study examines a broad spectrum of transformations of the thematic core of the legend, concentrating on Marlowe's play, Milton's and Fontenelle's responses to seventeenth-century science, Mountfort's farcical Faustus play and early eighteenth-century harlequinades.
Progress Unchained
Author | : Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1108905250 |
Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism reconfigured biological progress as a 'tree of life' with multiple lines of advance not necessarily leading to humans, each driven by the rare innovations that generate entirely new functions. Popular writers such as H. G. Wells used a similar model to depict human progress, with competing technological innovations producing ever-more rapid changes in society. Bowler shows that as the idea of progress has become open-ended and unpredictable, a variety of alternative futures have been imagined.