Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences

Knowledge and Cultural Institutions in the Romantic Age

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Transfiguring the Arts and Sciences by Jon Klancher, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jon Klancher ISBN: 9781107461208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: August 1, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Jon Klancher
ISBN: 9781107461208
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: August 1, 2013
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early-modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modes of organizing 'knowledges'. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

In this important and innovative study, Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the 'Arts and Sciences' by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. He investigates the work of poets, lecturers, moral philosophers, scientists and literary critics - including Coleridge, Godwin, Bentham, Davy, Wordsworth, Robinson, Shelley and Hunt - and traces their response to book collectors and bibliographers, art-and-science administrators, painters, engravers, natural philosophers, radical journalists, editors and reviewers. Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early-modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modes of organizing 'knowledges'. His conclusions transform the ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Organizing Bronze Age Societies by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Economics of World War I by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book Divided Brains by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Parasomnias and Other Sleep-Related Movement Disorders by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book Domestic Space in Classical Antiquity by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book A Comprehensive Course in Number Theory by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book Community Treatment of Drug Misuse by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book Milton and Maternal Mortality by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book American Literature in Transition, 1970–1980 by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to German Romanticism by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Alchemists by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book Constructing Intellectual Property by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg by Jon Klancher
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to African American Women's Literature by Jon Klancher
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy