Thomas Gray among the Disciplines (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Abbott, Ruth; Levinson, Ephraim

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

It explores Thomas Gray's polymathic scholarship within the changing norms of 18th-century disciplines, locating him within histories of specialisation and examining the ways in which he challenges their narratives. Offering fresh understanding, it will appeal to scholars of eighteenth-century literary, intellectual, and scientific history

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040264072
• Artikelnr.: 72536774

Autorenporträt

Ruth Abbott is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, UK. Ephraim Levinson is a Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface. The Organisation of Knowledge in Thomas Gray's Manuscripts,
1716-1771
Ruth Abbott
Introduction. Literature, Scholarship, and the Disciplines in the Reception
of Thomas Gray, 1771-2021
Ephraim Levinson
Chapter 1. Thomas Gray, Menippean Satire, and the Antiquarian Method
Charlotte Roberts
Chapter 2. New Manuscript Material from Thomas Gray's Grand Tour
Stephen Clarke
Chapter 3. Thomas Gray as Music Collector
Nathalie Dupuis-Désormeaux
Chapter 4. Lucretius, Locke, and Latinitas in Thomas Gray's De Principiis
Cogitandi
Estelle Haan
Chapter 5. Thomas Gray's Oriental Scholarship
Kelsey Jackson Williams
Chapter 6. Thomas Gray's Geographic Imagination
Joshua Swidzinski
Chapter 7. Thomas Gray among the Medievalists
Lotte Reinbold
Chapter 8. Queering Thomas Gray's Celticism
Rhys Kaminski-Jones
Chapter 9. Thomas Gray's Understanding and Reviving of Historical
Architecture
Peter N. Lindfield
Chapter 10. Thomas Gray, Authorship, and A Catalogue of the Antiquities,
Houses, Parks, Plantations, Scenes, and Situations in England and Wales
Ephraim Levinson
Chapter 11. Thomas Gray and Meteorology
Tess Somervell
Chapter 12. Thomas Gray and the Art of Transcribing Historical Manuscripts
Ruth Abbott
Chapter 13. Thomas Gray as Reader and Writer of the Natural World
Scott Mandelbrote and Edwin Rose
Index