Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international Enlightenment

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Hemispheres and stratospheres : the idea and experience of distance in the international Enlightenment

Title remainder

the idea and experience of distance in the international Enlightenment

Statement of responsibility

edited by Kevin L. Cope

Contributor

• Cope, Kevin Lee

Editor

• Cope, Kevin Lee

Subject

• 1700-1799
• Arts, Modern
• Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- History
• Enlightenment
• Enlightenment
• Geographical perception in literature
• Geographical perception in literature
• Geography in art
• Geography in art
• Literature, Modern
• Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

"Nowhere is distance so near-at-hand as in Enlightenment culture. Whether in the telescopic surveys of early astronomers, the panoramas of painters, the diaries of travelers, the prospects of landscape architects, or the tales of novelists, distance is never far in the background of the works and deeds of long-eighteenth-century artists, authors, and adventurers. Hemispheres and Stratospheres draws that background into the foreground. 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"--

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• Transits (Bucknell University)

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

700/.42

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NX650.G46

LC item number

H46 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Transits : literature, thought & culture 1650-1850