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    Hemispheres and Stratospheres
    The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment

    Kevin L. Cope (Edited by), Roger D. Lund (Contributions by), William Stargard (Contributions by), Bärbel Czennia (Contributions by), Brijraj Singh (Contributions by), Chandrava Chakravarty (Contributions by), Rachel Mann (Contributions by), Kevin L. Cope (Contributions by), Phyllis Thompson (Contributions by)

    9781684482023

    Hardback, published 18 December 2020

    262 pages, 23 b-w images
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.463 kg

    “In eight wide-ranging essays by prominent scholars, this groundbreaking collection challenges how Enlightenment and long-eighteenth-century researchers need to reassess the interdisciplinary nature, cultural richness, and international scope of this topic. The study ventures into new territories in the international and cultural terrain of distance studies, uncovering uncharted research and future prospects in the digital humanities.”
    - Mark Pedreira (Professor of English, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras)
    “With his characteristic intellectual amplitude, Kevin L. Cope presents in this volume essays on the eighteenth-century ‘prospect’ in art and literature, the function of distance in Italian architecture, the European travel of two South Indian priests, the dislocations and adaptations of ‘long distance’ imaginary voyages, and the possible advantages of ‘distant’ reading-among others. While novel in its core supposition, the volume pays respect to an older, distinguished scholarly orientation that is perfectly in line with our own multidisciplinary moment: the history of ideas.”
    - John Scanlan (coeditor of The Age of Johnson) "A valuable contribution to the growing body of theories and histories of distance." (The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats)

    Recognizing distance as a central concern of the Enlightenment, this volume offers eight essays on distance in art and literature; on cultural transmission and exchange over distance; and on distance as a topic in science, a theme in literature, and a central issue in modern research methods. Through studies of landscape gardens, architecture, imaginary voyages, transcontinental philosophical exchange, and cosmological poetry, Hemispheres and Stratospheres unfurls the early history of a distance culture that influences our own era of global information exchange, long-haul flights, colossal skyscrapers, and space tourism.

    Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
     


    List of Illustrations
    Introduction
    Part I: Best Seen at a Distance: The Art of the Far Away
    Looking Down: Observations on Elevation, Prospect Vision, and Eighteenth-Century Imagination
    Roger D. Lund
    Space and the Meaning of Distance in Bernardo Vittone’
    s Architecture
    William Stargard
    Change of Air, Change of Self: Long Distance and Human Adaptability in Imaginary Voyages of the Long Eighteenth Century
    BÄ
    rbel Czennia
    Part II: Culture Over and As Distance
    Distant Lands, Distant Races, Distant Cultures: Two Eighteenth-Century South Indian Priests Go to Europe
    Brijraj Singh
    Connecting Hemispheres, Playing with Distance:  Rammohun Roy, an Indian Transnationalist
    Chandrava Chakravarty
    Part III: The Nature of Distance
    New Science, Distant Reading, and Distance as Intersubjectivity
    Rachel Mann
    Orbiting Iambs: Enlightenment Cosmology and Conveniently Condensed Immensities
    Kevin L. Cope
    Journeys to the Edge: The Idea and Experience of Distance in Archival Research
    Phyllis Thompson
    Acknowledgments
    Bibliography
    Notes on Contributors
    Index
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