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Voyage Into Substance

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262192231
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Into Substance written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voyage into Substance reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment - a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the Polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts "sailed" through the atmosphere's "waves," all seeking to discover and record the non-human likeness of the phenomenal world. By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives and atlases of the period, the book relates the voyagers' attentive, firsthand mode of seeing and precise copying of the enduring and the ephemeral features of the environment (before the advent of photography) to the major philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic debates of the time. Arguing that these accounts disclose an anti-Picturesque tradition of representation, the book opens new doors to establish the persistence of a "plain," that is, a style of landscape depiction that culminates in 19th-century realism. Voyage into Substance analyzes a vast repertory of geological, mineralogical and biological treatises concerning the self-expressive physiognomy of the earth and shows them to be important precursors and allies of the non-fictional travel narrative. Intertwining art, literature, philosophy, geography, and the history of science, with the aid of 304 plates, the book adds significantly to all these disciplines and is a unique contribution to the field of art and architectural history as well as to modern intellectual history. Barbara Maria Stafford is Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Publication of this book was partially funded by the Millard Meiss Fund of the College Art Association of America and by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Voyage Into Substance

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780264192239
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (922 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Into Substance written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Body Criticism

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262691659
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Body Criticism written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-08-13 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

Artful Science

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262691819
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Artful Science written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the "magic" of learning in the 18th century. This text draws on historical sources and popular imagery to make the case for the pedagogical opportunities - suggesting ways of putting intelligence, enjoyment and communicative power back into thinking with images.

Visual Analogy

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262692670
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Visual Analogy written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking book exploring the discovery of sameness in otherness. Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, "we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference." Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind's intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience. The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core.

Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840

Author : P. Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137030364
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840 written by P. Smethurst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.

Four Centuries of Geological Travel

Author : Patrick Wyse Jackson
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 9781862392342
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Four Centuries of Geological Travel written by Patrick Wyse Jackson and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science.

Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

Author : Adriana Méndez Rodenas
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1611485088
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America written by Adriana Méndez Rodenas and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Travels in Nineteenth-Century Latin America: European Women Pilgrims retraces the steps of five intrepid “lady travelers” who ventured into the geography of the New World—Mexico, the Southern Cone, Brazil, and the Caribbean—at a crucial historical juncture, the period of political anarchy following the break from Spain and the rise of modernity at the turn of the twentieth century. Traveling as historians, social critics, ethnographers, and artists, Frances Erskine Inglis (1806–82), Maria Graham (1785–1842), Flora Tristan (1803–44), Fredrika Bremer (1801–65), and Adela Breton (1849–1923) reshaped the map of nineteenth-century Latin America. Organized by themes rather than by individual authors, this book examines European women’s travels as a spectrum of narrative discourses, ranging from natural history, history, and ethnography. Women’s social condition becomes a focal point of their travels. By combining diverse genres and perspectives, women’s travel writing ushers a new vision of post-independence societies. The trope of pilgrimage conditions the female travel experience, which suggests both the meta-end of the journey as well as the broader cultural frame shaping their individual itineraries.

Woman of Substances

Author : Jenny Valentish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788541626
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (885 download)

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Download or read book Woman of Substances written by Jenny Valentish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-17 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Jenny Valentish takes a gendered look at drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Mining the expertise of 35 leading researchers, clinicians and psychiatrists, she explores the early predictors of addictive behaviour, such as trauma, temperament and impulsivity. Drawing on neuroscience, she explains why other self-destructive behaviours – such as eating disorders, compulsive buying and high-risk sex – are interchangeable with problematic substance use. From her childhood in suburban Slough to her chaotic formative years in the London music scene, we follow her journey to Australia, where she experiences firsthand treatment facilities and AA groups, and reflects whether or not they are meeting the needs of women. Woman of Substances is an insightful, rigorous and brutally honest read. In Australia it was nominated for a prestigious Walkley Book Award. 'Employing expert interviews and research, each rich personal episode is contextualised within the under-examined issue of women's substance abuse. Detailed, insightful and told with a feature writer's narrative flair' Bookseller and Publisher. 'Engages readers with storytelling while presenting scientific findings and theories in a way that is accessible to a broad audience' Broadsheet. 'Part monograph, part memoir, part Ginsbergian howl of outrage at a culture in which gender bias is a tenet. It is a work of compellingly articulate anger' The Australian. 'In straightforward, lively prose she relates even her darkest moments without self-pity or aggrandisement, and often with a streak of gallows humour, leading to more laugh-out-loud lines than you might expect' The Saturday Paper. 'We need books like this, and writers like Valentish, to give voice to our frustrations and concerns, to help legitimise and mobilise' Kill Your Darlings. 'Valentish's passion lies in exploring the underlying causes and their effects and, in the most female of ways, offering companionship and reassurance for her readers' The Monthly. 'Doesn't mince her words' Sydney Morning Herald.

Echo Objects

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226770524
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Echo Objects written by Barbara Maria Stafford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191554391
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840 written by Nigel Leask and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-01-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.

Travels into Print

Author : Innes M. Keighren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623357X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Travels into Print written by Innes M. Keighren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-11 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, books of travel and exploration were much more than simply the printed experiences of intrepid authors. They were works of both artistry and industry—products of the complex, and often contested, relationships between authors and editors, publishers and printers. These books captivated the reading public and played a vital role in creating new geographical truths. In an age of global wonder and of expanding empires, there was no publisher more renowned for its travel books than the House of John Murray. Drawing on detailed examination of the John Murray Archive of manuscripts, images, and the firm’s correspondence with its many authors—a list that included such illustrious explorers and scientists as Charles Darwin and Charles Lyell, and literary giants like Jane Austen, Lord Byron, and Sir Walter Scott—Travels into Print considers how journeys of exploration became published accounts and how travelers sought to demonstrate the faithfulness of their written testimony and to secure their personal credibility. This fascinating study in historical geography and book history takes modern readers on a journey into the nature of exploration, the production of authority in published travel narratives, and the creation of geographical authorship—a journey bound together by the unifying force of a world-leading publisher.

Morrell's Narrative of a Voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa

Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Morrell's Narrative of a Voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Morrell's Narrative of a voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa: containing the information from whence originated the present trade in Guano. ... With a prefatory advertisement by Lieut. Petrie. And an appendix, comprising notices of the natural and chemical history of Guano, etc

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Author : Benjamin Morrell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Morrell's Narrative of a voyage to the South and West Coast of Africa: containing the information from whence originated the present trade in Guano. ... With a prefatory advertisement by Lieut. Petrie. And an appendix, comprising notices of the natural and chemical history of Guano, etc written by Benjamin Morrell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900

Author : Benjamin Colbert
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030361462
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900 by : Benjamin Colbert

Download or read book Continental Tourism, Travel Writing, and the Consumption of Culture, 1814–1900 written by Benjamin Colbert and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the boundaries of British continental travel and tourism in the nineteenth century, stretching from Norway to Bulgaria, from visitors’ albums to missionary efforts, from juvenilia to joint authorship. The essay topics invoke new aesthetics of travel as consumption, travel as satire, and of the developing culture of tourism. Chronologically arranged, the book charts the growth and permutations of this new consumerist ideology of travel driven by the desires of both men and women: the insatiable appetite for new accounts of old routes as well as appropriation of the new; interart reproductions of description and illustration; and wider cultural manifestations of tourism within popular entertainment and domestic settings. Continental tourism provides multiple perspectives with wide-ranging coverage of cultural phenomena increasingly incorporated into and affected by the nineteenth-century continental tour. The essays suggest the coextension of travel alongside experiential boundaries and reveal the emergence of a consumerist attitude toward travel that persists in the present day.

The Lure of the Sea

Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066380
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The Lure of the Sea written by Alain Corbin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corbin argues that with few exceptions people living before the eighteenth century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast, the visual delight of the sea, the desire to brave the force of the waves or to feel the coolness of sand against the skin. The image of the ocean in the popular consciousness was coloured by Biblical and mythical recollections of sea monsters, voracious whales, and catastrophic floods. It was perceived as sinister and unchanging, a dark, unfathomable force inspiring horror rather than attraction. These associations of catastrophe and fear in the minds of Europeans intensified the repulsion they felt towards deserted and dismal shores.

'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America

Author : Paul C. Gutjahr
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783087420
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book 'Voyage to the Moon' and Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America written by Paul C. Gutjahr and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Voyage to the Moon' And Other Imaginary Lunar Flights of Fancy in Antebellum America gathers for the first time in a scholarly critical edition four moon voyage stories published by Americans prior to the Civil War. Included in this volume are the works by George Tucker, Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Adams Locke and John Leonard Riddell. Along with a general introduction to the collection as a whole, each story has its own introductory material along with explanatory footnotes and appendixes to help identify the key points of its textual and cultural history.