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Author | : Jon Klancher |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107029104 |
This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.
Author | : Adriana Craciun |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-08-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137443790 |
In this book the eighteenth century Enlightenment receives an important reassessment, using an astonishing range of materials and objects drawn from Europe and beyond, including artefacts from India and China, West Africa and Polynesia. A series of authoritative essays written by experts in the field explores the full range of material culture in the long eighteenth century, raising crucial questions about notions of property and invention, homely and commercial lives. The book also includes a series of well-illustrated exhibits, a startling and provocative assemblage of objects from the Enlightenment world, each accompanied by expert commentaries. The collection of essays and exhibits is the result of collaborative debate by scholars from Europe and north America, who have together worked on the cross-disciplinary importance of material history in making sense of how past society was fundamentally transformed through the world of goods.
Author | : Stephanie O'Rourke |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1316519023 |
Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.
Author | : Peter S. Hawkins |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780804737012 |
Exploring Dante's reading and how he transformed what he found, this book argues that the independence and strength of Dante's poetic stance stems from deep and sustained experience of Christian scriptures.
Author | : Philipp Erchinger |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-09-03 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1474438970 |
Reads Victorian literature and science as artful practices that surpass the theories and discourses supposed to contain them
Author | : Cynthia Verba |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019938102X |
"Prompted by controversial views of the composer-theorist Jean-Philippe Rameau, the leading figures of the French Enlightenment engaged in a vigorous philosophical debate about the nature of music. Their dialogue was one of extraordinary depth and richness, and dealth with some of the most fundamental issues of the French Enlightenment. In the newly revised edition of 'Music and the French Enlightenment', Cynthia Verba updates this fascinating story with the prolific scholarship that has emerged since the book was first published." -- rear cover.
Author | : Nancy Glazener |
Publisher | : Oxford Studies in American Lit |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199390134 |
Using the US as a case study, this study examines the public life of literature between the late 18th and the early 20th centuries, bringing together the development of literature's intellectual infrastructure, its operation in print culture, its changing status in higher education, and the surprisingly rich and interesting history of public literary culture.
Author | : Howard Jason Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jan Golinski |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2016-05-11 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022636884X |
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest background, Davy was propelled by his scientific accomplishments to a knighthood and the presidency of the Royal Society. An enigmatic figure to his contemporaries, Davy has continued to elude the efforts of biographers to classify him: poet, friend to Coleridge and Wordsworth, author of travel narratives and a book on fishing, chemist and inventor of the miners’ safety lamp. What are we to make of such a man? In The Experimental Self, Golinski argues that Davy’s life is best understood as a prolonged process of self-experimentation. He follows Davy from his youthful enthusiasm for physiological experiment through his self-fashioning as a man of science in a period when the path to a scientific career was not as well-trodden as it is today. What emerges is a portrait of Davy as a creative fashioner of his own identity through a lifelong series of experiments in selfhood.
Author | : Jon Mee |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Industrial revolution |
ISBN | : 0226828387 |
"In this book, Jon Mee proposes a new literary-cultural history of the Industrial Revolution in Britain from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Against the stubbornly persistent image of "dark satanic mills," in many ways so comforting to literary Romanticism, Jon Mee provides fresh, revisionary account of the Industrial Revolution as a story of unintended consequences. Reading a wide range of texts-economic, medical, and more conventionally "literary" ones-with a distinctive focus on their circulation through networks and institutions, Mee shows how a project of enlightened liberal reform, articulated in Britain's emerging manufacturing towns, led unexpectedly to coercive forms of machine productivity, a pattern that might be seen repeating in the digital technologies in our own time. Instead of treating the Industrial Revolution as Romanticism's "other," Mee shows how writing, practices, and institutions emanating from the industrial towns developed a new kind of knowledge economy, one where "literary" debates played a key role, especially through local literary and philosophical societies who were important transmission hubs for the circulation of knowledge. Mee provides a new perspective on the development of social relations across the period, challenging the idea that the Industrial Revolution as the result of some kind of prior, ideological intention. The book will interest literary scholars concerned with the relation of Romanticism to Britain's social and economic upheavals; social and economic historians studying the underpinnings of the Industrial Revolution; and cultural historians tracing the relation between social networks and political philosophy"--