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Hemispheres and Stratospheres
Roger D. Lund
其他書名
The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment
出版
Rutgers University Press
, 2020-12-18
主題
Art / General
History / Modern / 18th Century
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / Modern / 18th Century
Science / History
Social Science / Human Geography
ISBN
1684482011
9781684482016
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=tW-CEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"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"--