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1 online resource (263 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Transits: Literature, Thought and Culture 1650-1850 Ser.
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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Description based upon print version of record. |
Contents |
Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment / Kevin L. Cope -- PART ONE: Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far-Away -- 1. Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination / Roger D. Lund -- 2. Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone's Architecture / William Stargard |
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3. Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century / Bärbel Czennia -- PART TWO: Culture over and as Distance -- 4. Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe / Brijraj Singh -- 5. Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance: Rammohun Roy, the Indian Transnationalist / Chandrava Chakravarty -- PART THREE: The Nature of Distance -- 6. New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity / Rachel Mann |
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7. Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities / Kevin L. Cope -- 8. Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research / Phyllis Thompson -- Acknowledgment -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Geography in art.
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Geography in art. |
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Geographical perception in literature.
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Geographical perception in literature. |
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Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- History.
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Arts, Modern. |
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History. |
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Enlightenment.
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Enlightenment. |
Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Added Author |
Cope, Kevin Lee.
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Lund, Roger D.
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Stargard, William.
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Czennia, Bärbel.
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Singh, Brij Raj.
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Chakravarty, Chandrava.
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Mann, Rachel.
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Thompson, Phyllis.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Cope, Kevin L. Hemispheres and Stratospheres : The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment New Brunswick : Bucknell University Press,c2020 9781684482023 |
ISBN |
1684482054 |
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9781684482054 (electronic book) |
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