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Author : Aria Beth Michaels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Cultural Sensibility in the Picturesque and the Sublime written by Aria Beth Michaels and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Boyden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192694448
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics written by Michael Boyden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecœur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.
Author : Koen Vermeir
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400721021
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry written by Koen Vermeir and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated reader, Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a milestone in western thinking. This edited volume will take the 250th anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke’s prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke’s oeuvre combines reflections on aesthetics, politics and the sciences. This collection is the first book length work devoted primarily to Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry in both its historical context and for its contemporary relevance. It will establish the fact that the Enquiry is an important philosophical and literary work in its own right.
Author : John Steinfort Kedney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful and the Sublime written by John Steinfort Kedney and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Chambers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136400370
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Culture after Humanism written by Iain Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology.
Author : Inger Sigrun Brodey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136095381
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Ruined by Design written by Inger Sigrun Brodey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship. This book argues that the rhetoric of ruins lends a distinctive shape to the architecture and literature of the time and requires the novel to adjust notions of authorship and narrative to accommodate the prevailing aesthetic. Just as architects of eighteenth-century follies pretend to have discovered "authentic" ruins, novelists within the culture of sensibility also build purposely fragmented texts and disguise their authorship, invoking highly artificial means of simulating nature. The cultural pursuit of human ruin, however, leads to hypocritical and sadistic extremes that put an end to the characteristic ambivalence of sensibility and its unusual structures.
Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308781
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Cultures of the Sublime written by Cian Duffy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical anthology examines the place of the sublime in the cultural history of the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Traditionally, the sublime has been associated with impressive natural phenomena and has been identified as a narrow aesthetic or philosophical category. Cultures of the Sublime: Selected Readings, 1750-1830: - Recovers a broader context for engagements with, and writing about, the sublime - Offers a selection of texts from a wide range of ostensibly unrelated areas of knowledge which both generate and investigate sublime effects - Considers writings about mountains, money, crowds, the Gothic, the exotic and the human mind - Contextualises and supports the extracts with detailed editorial commentary Also featuring helpful suggestions for further reading, this is an ideal resource for anyone seeking a fresh, up-to-date assessment of the sublime.
Author : John Gibson Macvicar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book On the Beautiful, the Picturesque, the Sublime written by John Gibson Macvicar and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Henke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110394979
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Common Sense in Early 18th-Century British Literature and Culture written by Christoph Henke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the popular talk of English common sense in the eighteenth century might seem a by-product of familiar Enlightenment discourses of rationalism and empiricism, this book argues that terms such as ‘common sense’ or ‘good sense’ are not simply synonyms of applied reason. On the contrary, the discourse of common sense is shaped by a defensive impulse against the totalizing intellectual regimes of the Enlightenment and the cultural climate of change they promote, in order to contain the unbounded discursive proliferation of modern learning. Hence, common sense discourse has a vital regulatory function in cultural negotiations of political and intellectual change in eighteenth-century Britain against the backdrop of patriotic national self-concepts. This study discusses early eighteenth-century common sense in four broad complexes, as to its discursive functions that are ethical (which at that time implies aesthetic as well), transgressive (as a corrective), political (in patriotic constructs of the nation), and repressive (of otherness). The selection of texts in this study strikes a balance between dominant literary culture – Swift, Pope, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson – and the periphery, such as pamphlets and magazine essays, satiric poems and patriotic songs.
Author : Hélène Ibata
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526117428
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The challenge of the sublime written by Hélène Ibata and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the links between the unprecedented visual inventiveness of the Romantic period in Britain and eighteenth-century theories of the sublime. Edmund Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), in particular, is shown to have directly or indirectly challenged visual artists to explore not just new themes, but also new compositional strategies and visual media such as panoramas and book illustrations, by arguing that the sublime was beyond the reach of painting. More significantly, it began to call into question mimetic representational models, causing artists to reflect about the presentation of the unpresentable and drawing attention to the process of artistic production itself, rather than the finished artwork.
Author : J. Woodrow McCree
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 179361962X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture written by J. Woodrow McCree and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington Irving’s Critique of American Culture: Sketching a Vision of World Citizenship challenges long-standing views of Washington Irving. He has been portrayed as writing in the 18th century style of Addison and Goldsmith, without having much substance of his own. Irving has also been accused of being insufficiently American and adrift in an identity crisis. The author argues that Irving addressed the American cultural context very extensively—he was a writer of substance who articulated an ethic of world citizenship that was found in the philosophy of ancient Greek cynics and stoics. This ethic was united with a love of picturesque travel, which emphasized variety and texture in experience, resulting in an extraordinary affirmation of the value of cultural diversity in the new Republic. Irving was, in fact, a liminal figure straddling Romantic and neoclassical modes of writing and acting. The author draws attention to Irving’s success as a writer in the pictorial mode. Irving also expressed a critique of cultural loss and environmental destruction like that articulated by the artist Thomas Cole. The work embraces an interdisciplinary approach, where insights from philosophy, religion, art history, and social history shed light on an underestimated writer.
Author : Susan B. Egenolf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147706
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson written by Susan B. Egenolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as Romantic-period authors asserted the importance of telling the unvarnished truth, novelists were deploying narrative glossing in particularly sophisticated forms. The author examines the artistic craft and political engagement of three major women novelists-Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth, and Sydney Owenson-whose self-conscious use of glosses facilitated their critiques of politics and society. All three writers employed devices such as prefaces and editorial notes, as well as alternative media, especially painting and drama, to comment on the narrative. The effect of these disparate media, the author argues, is to call the reader's attention away from the narrative itself. That is, such glossing or 'varnishing' creates narrative ruptures that offer the reader a glimpse of the process of fictional structuring and often reveal the novel's indebtedness to a particular historical moment. In spite, or perhaps because, of their being gendered feminine in eighteenth-century rhetorical commentary, therefore, these glosses allow women writers to participate in 'masculine' discussions outside the conventional domestic sphere. Informed by a wide range of archival texts and examples from the visual arts, and highlighting the 1798 Irish Rebellion as a major event in Irish and British Romantic writing, the author's study offers a new interdisciplinary reading of gendered and political responses to key events in the history of Romanticism.
Author : Maximillian E. Novak
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137033
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period.
Author : Dauphin county, Pa. Teachers' institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Session ... written by Dauphin county, Pa. Teachers' institute and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Steinfort Kedney
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781356978236
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful and the Sublime written by John Steinfort Kedney and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Steinfort Kedney
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780469528963
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful and the Sublime: An Analysis of These Emotions and a Determination of the Objectivity written by John Steinfort Kedney and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-23 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Elizabeth A. Bohls
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521474582
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 written by Elizabeth A. Bohls and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study re-examines the genre of Romantic travel writing through the perspective of women writers.
