Global Exchanges of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

Ideas and Materialities c. 1650-1850
Redaktion: Raven, James

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering exploration of how differences in material textual forms conveyed and altered ideas in diverse but connected parts of the world in a period of exceptional social, political and intellectual change.

Technological advances during the long eighteenth century brought new and exciting intellectual exchange between peoples in different parts of the world. Mutual unfamiliarity with textual forms - those sent to as well as received from Europe - also made knowledge transfer unpredictable and problematic.

This volume examines how differences in the material production and circulation of textual objects transformed the ways in which knowledge was formulated and received between 1650 and 1850. Essays focus on diverse regions of Britain and Europe, European colonies in the Caribbean and North America, India and East Asia. The volume engages with varied and changing perceptions of China in Europe, the transmission of Christian texts in colonial South Asia, the cross-cultural circulation of natural history and Orientalist knowledge, and the diffusion of the Qu'ran in European Enlightenment libraries.

In pursuing global perspectives, thirteen cultural and literary historians, collectively reassess Eurocentric interpretations of a republic of letters, a public sphere, an invention of the self and a reading revolution. They further challenge the extent to which European periodizations of 'the Enlightenment' map onto processes of technological and intellectual change in other regions of the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805432333
• Artikelnr.: 69697530

Autorenporträt

Edited by James Raven

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - James Raven Part One: Knowledge and Reception 2.
Crowd-Sourcing Global Natural History: James Petiver's Museum - Richard
Coulton 3. 'Useful' Translations in the Milanese Enlightenment - Alexandra
Ortolja-Baird 4. Monsters, Myths and Methods: The Making and Global
Reception of a Norwegian History - James Raven 5. The Lettres chinoises
and its Shaping of Contrasting Perceptions of China - Trude Dijkstra 6. An
American Reception of Clarissa: Erotica and Youthful Reading at the Salem
Social Library - Sean Moore Part Two: Images and News 7. Travelling Images:
Exchanging, Adapting and Appropriating Illustrations for a History of
England - Isabelle Baudino 8. From Charts to Cartes: Translating Graphs
across the Channel in the Late Eighteenth Century - Jean-François Dunyach
9. The Printing Press and Colonial Newspapers in the Lesser Antilles -
Francesco A. Morriello 10. Newspapers and Atlantic Revolutions: The
Circulation of the Gaceta de Madrid in the Spanish Caribbean - Cristina
Soriano Part Three: Multiple Diffusions 11. Cross-Cultural Circulations and
Orientalist Knowledge: Barthélemy d'Herbelot's Bibliothèque orientale and
its Editions - Despina Magkanari 12. The Diffusion of the Qur'an in Private
Enlightenment Libraries - Alicia C. Montoya 13. The Unexpected Dynamics of
Christian Text Transmission in Colonial South Asia and Myanmar- Graham Shaw
14. Robert Morrison at the End of the Enlightenment: Collecting Books in
Early Nineteenth-Century China - Cynthia Brokaw Conclusion - James Raven
Select Bibliography Index