1650-1850 Ideas, Aesthetics & Inquiries V7 (Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era) - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0404644074 ISBN 13: 9780404644079

Publisher: AMS Press, 2004

Synopsis

1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era takes a focused but multidisciplinary approach to the “long eighteenth century,” the two hundred years during which the writers and artists explored, developed, and represented a complex program of modernization or “Enlightenment.” Covering a period that begins with the revolutionary thought of Thomas Hobbes and the surprising establishment of a Commonwealth government and that ends with the careers of William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, 1650–1850 publishes essays treating the aesthetic and philosophical side of this period of deep social transformation.

This annual includes studies on the literature, philosophy, theology, art, music, architecture, and personalities of the period. It publishes many essays on British topics but also includes studies from various cultures, from Vietnam and Romania to Peru and the arctic.

It seeks to discover connections among the various arts and intellectual pursuits and also to provide a venue for specialized studies not suitable for less experimental journals. 1650–1850 always includes fifteen to twenty extended reviews, reviews that examine major scholarly studies and editions in detail and with robust honesty.

Volume 11 includes

• Allan Ingram, “Steering Towards Sanity: The Compass Points of Madness in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
• Jack Lynch, “Forgery as Performance Art: The Strange Case of George Psalmanazar”
• W. Keith Percival, “Some Aspects of Jonathan Swift’s Perspective on Language”
• Louis Cellauro, “Architects and Nature: The Theory of Imitation in Étienne-Louis Boulleé’s Essai sur l’Art”
• Christiane Hertel, “Grotesques–Rocaille–Laocoön: ‘Remembering Nature’ in Winckelmann, Erdmannsdorff, Chodoweicki, and Goethe”
• Waltraud Maierhofer, “‘Too Large for Our Northern Dwellings’: Self-Image and Portrait in Goethe’s Italian Journey”
• David Williams, “The French Abolitionist Treatise in the Late Enlightenment: Examples of a Hybrid Genre”

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Review:

...belongs in the library of every university that takes the study of the Enlightenment seriously... -The East-Central Intelligencer

Synopsis:

A special section on death and dying in the early modern period contains 17 papers discussing such aspects as death in Hogarth's engraving, the wretched death of the villain Zeluco, the powers of Death in Blake's Night Thoughts engravings, female infanticide and the Raj, anecdotes of Scotch-Irish settlers in western Pennsylvania, Hobbes and Bramhal

About this edition

• Publisher: AMS Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0404644074
• ISBN 13: 9780404644079
• Binding: Hardcover