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OverviewRecognizing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kevin L. Cope , Roger D. Lund , William Stargard , Bärbel CzenniaPublisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Imprint: Bucknell University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.004kg ISBN: 9781684482016ISBN 10: 1684482011 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 18 December 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIn eight wide-ranging essays by prominent scholars, this groundbreaking collection challenges how Enlightenment and long-eighteenth-century researchers need to reassess the interdisciplinary nature, cultural richness, and international scope of this topic. The study ventures into new territories in the international and cultural terrain of distance studies, uncovering uncharted research and future prospects in the digital humanities. --Mark Pedreira Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras With his characteristic intellectual amplitude, Kevin L. Cope presents in this volume essays on the eighteenth-century 'prospect' in art and literature, the function of distance in Italian architecture, the European travel of two South Indian priests, the dislocations and adaptations of 'long distance' imaginary voyages, and the possible advantages of 'distant' reading--among others. While novel in its core supposition, the volume pays respect to an older, distinguished scholarly orientation that is perfectly in line with our own multidisciplinary moment: the history of ideas. --John Scanlan coeditor of The Age of Johnson A moment's thought on a few classic Enlightenment interests--travel, measurement, optics, history, cartography, social class, and cultural comparison, for example--will suggest the centrality of the idea of distance, and yet we have little sustained scholarship on the subject. With his characteristic intellectual amplitude, Kevin L. Cope presents in this volume essays on the eighteenth-century 'prospect' in art and literature, the function of distance in Italian architecture, the European travel of two South Indian priests, the dislocations and adaptations of 'long distance' imaginary voyages, and the possible advantages of 'distant' reading--among others. While novel in its core supposition, the volume pays respect to an older, distinguished scholarly orientation that is perfectly in line with our own multidisciplinary moment: the history of ideas. --John Scanlan coeditor of The Age of Johnson Kevin Cope's groundbreaking edited collection on distance in Hemispheres and Stratospheres challenges, in eight wide-ranging essays by prominent scholars, how researchers on the Enlightenment and long eighteenth century need to reassess the interdisciplinary nature, cultural richness, and international scope of this topic. Few books strive for encyclopedic range on topics that have eluded philosophers, natural scientists, architects, poets, novelists, priests, and scholars in the past and in the electronic age. But Cope's interdisciplinary study ventures into new territories in the international and cultural terrain of distance studies, uncovering uncharted research and future prospects on this topic in the digital humanities. --Mark Pedreira Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Author InformationKEVIN L. COPE is Adams Professor of English Literature and a member of the comparative literature faculty at Louisiana State University. Among his many books and edited collections are Criteria of Certainty, John Locke Revisited, and In and After the Beginning. He is also editor of the annual journal 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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