Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture write by Heather Kerr. This book was released on 2016-03-08. Passions, Sympathy and Print Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores ways in which passions came to be conceived, performed and authenticated in the eighteenth-century marketplace of print. It considers satire and sympathy in various environments, ranging from popular novels and journalism, through philosophical studies of the Scottish Enlightenment, to last words, aesthetics, and plastic surgery.
Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960
Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 write by James Gregory. This book was released on 2021-11-04. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Spanning over 2 centuries, James Gregory's Mercy and British Culture, 1760 -1960 provides a wide-reaching yet detailed overview of the concept of mercy in British cultural history. While there are many histories of justice and punishment, mercy has been a neglected element despite recognition as an important feature of the 18th-century criminal code. Mercy and British Culture, 1760-1960 looks first at mercy's religious and philosophical aspects, its cultural representations and its embodiment. It then looks at large-scale mobilisation of mercy discourses in Ireland, during the French Revolution, in the British empire, and in warfare from the American war of independence to the First World War. This study concludes by examining mercy's place in a twentieth century shaped by total war, atomic bomb, and decolonisation.
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture
Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture write by Anderson Miranda Anderson. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revitalising our reading of 18th century works specifically in the fields of the history of the book, literary studies, material culture, art history, philosophy, technology, science and medicine, this volume brings recent insights in cognitive science and philosophy of mind to bear on the distributed nature of cognition. Collectively, the essays show how the particular range of sociocultural and technological contexts of the time fostered and reflected particular notions of distributed cognition.
The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890
The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890 write by Gabriella Romani. This book was released on 2017-06-06. The Formation of a National Audience in Italy, 1750–1890 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries witness significant advancement in the production and, crucially, the consumption of culture in Italy. During the long process towards and beyond Italy becoming a nation-state in 1861, new modes of writing and performing – the novel, the self-help manual, theatrical improvisation – develop in response to new practices and technologies of production and distribution. Key to the emergence of an inclusive national audience in Italy is, however, the audience itself. A wide and varied body of consumers of culture, animated by the notion of an Italian national cultural identity, create in this period an increasingly complex demand for different cultural products. This body is energized by the wider access to education and to the Italian language brought about by educational reforms, by growing urbanization, by enhanced social mobility, and by transcultural connections across European borders. This book investigates this process, analyzing the ways in which authors, composers, publishers, performers, journalists, and editors engage with the anxieties and aspirations of their diverse audiences. Fourteen essays by specialists in the field, exploring individual contexts and cases, demonstrate how interests related to gender, social class, cultural background and practices of reading and spectatorship, exert determining influence upon the production of culture in this period. They describe how women, men, and children from across the social and regional strata of the emerging nation contribute incrementally but actively to the idea and the growing reality of an Italian national cultural life. They show that from newspapers to salon performances, from letters to treatises in social science, from popular novels to literary criticism, from philosophical discussions to opera theaters, there is evidence in Italy in this period of unprecedented participation, crossing academic and popular cultures, in the formation of a national audience in Italy. This cultural transformation later produces the mass culture in Italy which underpins the major movements of the twentieth century and which undergoes new challenges and reformulations in the Italy we know today.
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age
A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age write by . This book was released on 2020-08-20. A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Baroque and Enlightenment Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the period of the Baroque and Enlightenment the word “emotion”, denoting passions and feelings, came into usage, albeit in an irregular fashion. “Emotion” ultimately emerged as a term in its own right, and evolved in English from meaning physical agitation to describe mental feeling. However, the older terminology of “passions” and “affections” continued as the dominant discourse structuring thinking about feeling and its wider religious, political, social, economic, and moral imperatives. The emotional cultures described in these essays enable some comparative discussion about the history of emotions, and particularly the causes and consequences of emotional change in the larger cultural contexts of the Baroque and Enlightenment. Emotions research has enabled a rethinking of dominant narratives of the period-of histories of revolution, state-building, the rise of the public sphere, religious and scientific transformation, and more. As a new and dynamic field, the essays here are just the beginning of a much bigger history of emotions.
