The Eighteenth Centuries (eBook)

Global Networks of Enlightenment

David T. Gies, Cynthia Wall (Herausgeber)

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2018
316 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-4076-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Today, when "e;globalization"e; is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period's breadth and depth.Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.

Autor

lt;p>David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain and editor of The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cynthia Wall, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century and The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.2.2018
• Co-Autor: James Ambuske, Katelyn Crawford, Carrie Douglass, Casey Robert Eriksen
• Zusatzinfo: 44 halftones, 2 line drawings
• Verlagsort: Charlottesville
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: austria • biological essentialism • British Army • British Empire • Catholic • debt • Discovery • Dominican Republic • Emotional Geographies • Europe • Innocent III • Innocent X • Intellectual • jacobites • Jamaica • Natural History • nymphs • Ovid • Philosophy • Poland • Pope • Portugal • Puerto Rico • reason • Revelation • South America • Spain • Virginia Conventions • visual art • War of the Spanish Succession • William Wordsworth
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-4076-1 / 0813940761
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-4076-2 / 9780813940762