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Hemispheres and Stratospheres: The Idea and Experience of Distance in the International Enlightenment(Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850)

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Chandrava Chakravarty, Rachel Mann, Roger D. Lund, Kevin L. Cope, Phyllis Thompson,

Rutgers University Press (Publisher)

Published

2020

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By: Chandrava Chakravarty, Rachel Mann, Roger D. Lund, Kevin L. Cope, Phyllis Thompson | Publisher: Rutgers University Press | Released: 18 Dec 2020

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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.

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