The Eighteenth Centuries: Global Networks of Enlightenment - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813940753 ISBN 13: 9780813940755

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2018

Synopsis

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth.

Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.

About this title

About the Author:

David T. Gies, Commonwealth Professor of Spanish at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Spain and editor of The Cambridge History of Spanish Literature. Cynthia Wall, Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century and The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London.

Review:

"Lively and readable, this innovative essay collection has a rich pluralism of materials and approaches. The contributors’ movements across disciplines echo the movements shaping a ‘globalizing’ era."

(Deidre Lynch, Harvard University, author of Loving Literature: A Cultural History)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0813940753
• ISBN 13: 9780813940755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Gies David T., Wall Cynthia