Life Forms In The Thinking Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Life Forms In The Thinking Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Keith Michael Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2016-01-01
Life Forms In The Thinking Of The Long Eighteenth Century written by Keith Michael Baker and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-01 with History categories.
Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world.
Life Forms In The Thinking Of The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Keith Michael Baker
language : en
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Release Date : 2016
Life Forms In The Thinking Of The Long Eighteenth Century written by Keith Michael Baker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with SCIENCE categories.
"For many years, scholars have been moving away from the idea of a singular, secular, rationalistic, and mechanistic "Enlightenment project." Historian Peter Reill has been one of those at the forefront of this development, demonstrating the need for a broader and more varied understanding of eighteenth-century conceptions of nature. Life Forms in the Thinking of the Long Eighteenth Century is a unique reappraisal of Enlightenment thought on nature, biology, and the organic world that responds to Reill's work. The ten essays included in the collection analyse the place of historicism, vitalism, and esotericism in the eighteenth century--three strands of thought rarely connected, but all of which are central to Reill's innovative work. Working across national and regional boundaries, they engage not only French and English but also Italian, Swiss, and German writers."--
A Cultural History Of Fairy Tales In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Anne E. Duggan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-07-15
A Cultural History Of Fairy Tales In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Anne E. Duggan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with History categories.
How have fairy tales from around the world changed over the centuries? What do they tell us about different cultures and societies? This volume traces the evolution of the genre over the period known as the long eighteenth century. It explores key developments including: the French fairy tale vogue of the 1690s, dominated by women authors including Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy and Marie-Jeanne Lhéritier, the fashion of the oriental tale in the early eighteenth century, launched by Antoine Galland's seminal translation of The Thousand and One Nights from Arabic into French, and the birth of European children's literature in the second half of the eighteenth century. Drawing together contributions from an international range of scholars in history, literature and cultural studies, this volume examines the intersections between diverse national tale traditions through different critical perspectives, producing an authoritative transnational history of the genre. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of literature, history and cultural studies, this book explores such themes and topics as: forms of the marvelous, adaptation, gender and sexuality, humans and non-humans, monsters and the monstrous, spaces, socialization, and power. A Cultural History of Fairy Tales (6-volume set) A Cultural History of Fairy Tales in Antiquity is also available as a part of a 6-volume set, A Cultural History of Fairy Tales, tracing fairy tales from antiquity to the present day, available in print, or within a fully-searchable digital library accessible through institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com). Individual volumes for academics and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also available digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Curious Encounters
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Author : Adriana Craciun
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Curious Encounters written by Adriana Craciun and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with History categories.
With contributions from historians, literary critics, and geographers, Curious Encounters uncovers a rich history of global voyaging, collecting, and scientific exploration in the long eighteenth century. Leaving behind grand narratives of discovery, these essays collectively restore a degree of symmetry and contingency to our understanding of encounters between European and Indigenous people. To do this the essays consider diverse agents of historical change, both human and inanimate: commodities, curiosities, texts, animals, and specimens moved through their own global circuits of knowledge and power. The voyages and collections rediscovered here do not move from a European center to a distant periphery, nor do they position European authorities as the central agents of this early era of globalization. Long distance voyagers from Greenland to the Ottoman Empire crossed paths with French, British, Polynesian, and Spanish travelers across the world, trading objects and knowledge for diverse ends. The dynamic contact zones of these curious encounters include the ice floes of the Arctic, the sociable spaces of the tea table, the hybrid material texts and objects in imperial archives, and the collections belonging to key figures of the Enlightenment, including Sir Hans Sloane and James Petiver.
Animals And Other People
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Author : Heather Keenleyside
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2016-10-03
Animals And Other People written by Heather Keenleyside and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Animals and Other People, Heather Keenleyside argues for the central role of literary modes of knowledge in apprehending animal life. Keenleyside focuses on writers who populate their poetry, novels, and children's stories with conspicuously figurative animals, experiment with conventional genres like the beast fable, and write the "lives" of mice as well as men. From such writers—including James Thomson, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne, Anna Letitia Barbauld, and others—she recovers a key insight about the representation of living beings: when we think and write about animals, we are never in the territory of strictly literal description, relying solely on the evidence of our senses. Indeed, any description of animals involves personification of a sort, if we understand personification not as a rhetorical ornament but as a fundamental part of our descriptive and conceptual repertoire, essential for distinguishing living beings from things. Throughout the book, animals are characterized by a distinctive mode of agency and generality; they are at once moving and being moved, at once individual beings and generic or species figures (every cat is also "The Cat"). Animals thus become figures with which to think about key philosophical questions about the nature of human agency and of social and political community. They also come into view as potential participants in that community, as one sort of "people" among others. Demonstrating the centrality of animals to an eighteenth-century literary and philosophical tradition, Animals and Other People also argues for the importance of this tradition to current discussions of what life is and how we might live together.
Translation And Transfer Of Knowledge In Encyclopedic Compilations 1680 1830
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Author : Clorinda Donato
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2021-08
Translation And Transfer Of Knowledge In Encyclopedic Compilations 1680 1830 written by Clorinda Donato and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08 with History categories.
With a focus on the economic, social, and political impetus for producing monuments to knowledge, this volume recognizes the encyclopedic compilation as the quintessential tool of enlightenment knowledge transfer.
Quest For Certainty In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Barbara Fuchs
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
Quest For Certainty In Early Modern Europe written by Barbara Fuchs and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Reflecting on humanity's shared desire for certainty, this book explores the discrepancies between religious adherence and inner belief specific to the early modern period, a time marred by forced conversions and inquisition.
Casanova In The Enlightenment
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Author : Malina Stefanovska
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Casanova In The Enlightenment written by Malina Stefanovska and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with categories.
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.
Entertaining The Idea
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Author : Lowell Gallagher
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020-11-13
Entertaining The Idea written by Lowell Gallagher and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-13 with Drama categories.
This collection assembles essays on key words that link performance and philosophy in the works of Shakespeare.
The Internationalization Of Intellectual Exchange In A Globalizing Europe 1636 1780
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Author : Robert Mankin
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-18
The Internationalization Of Intellectual Exchange In A Globalizing Europe 1636 1780 written by Robert Mankin and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
This books attends to what in French, since the 1980s, has been called the passeur, the figure of the intellectual, mediator, translator or journalist, who is also a socialized being in the world.The volume sets out from biographical contexts in such a way that the work as a whole is offered as a gallery of portraits leading from one kind of cultural understanding to another and then another... Geographically, the range is broadly European (England, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Poland, Spain and Switzerland) though the aim is never to display how national identities arose. Nor is this range a matter of ‘covering’ the field. The figures treated were all important in their own right, and yet too often they receive scholarly attention only in passing. The singular identity studied here, if there is one, could be Europe’s, but the theme emphasized now and then is also that of the ‘internationalization’ of intellectual activity in a very long eighteenth century. The bookend chapters involving the understanding of the Orient reinforce the internationalization and the fostering of a European identity. The volume aims less to highlight or track specific ideas transported from one cultural context to another, though there are necessarily many examples given. It proposes instead to illustrate the evolution of post-humanist cultural activity in Europe, by beginning with a series of studies in which debate arises from religious positions (not only Protestant, but Muslim, Catholic, Jesuit, Jansenist and Jewish traditions) and closing with debate become philosophical and encyclopedic. As such, the volume documents a characteristic view of the transformation of early modern intellectual activity as its center moves from religion to philosophy; and it thereby draws special attention to the essays in the middle of the volume. These deal with figures active towards the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, and their abilities, difficulties and conflicts in finding new spaces for intellectual life outside of religious and political institutions—in public discussions of philosophy, toleration, journalism, law and the curious spatialization we refer to as Anglophilia.