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1 online resource (293 pages) |
| Series |
Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850 |
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Transits (Bucknell University)
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| Contents |
Introduction; 1: Orientalist Pococke; 2: Jean Barbeyracn, or the Ambiguities of Political Radicality at the Dawn of the Enlightenment; 3: Pierre Des Maizeaux, a Great Cultural Intermediary; 4: Philosophy in the Margins; 5: Isaac de Beausobre and Religious Controversy; 6: Religions Revealed, Civil and Natural; 7: Encyclopedic Transfers and the Internationalization of Intellectual Work; 8: Reconceptualizing Enlightened Networks and Their Mediators; 9: William Kenrick as Translator of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; 10: The Transcultural Commerce of Sir William Jones; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This book studies the phenomenon of ""cultural transfer"" via a gallery of case studies from Europe's early modernity. Perhaps its most original feature is to relate the European phenomenon to events in Europe's ""East"" (Central Europe) and developing practices of European Orientalism in the Middle East and India |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Intellectual cooperation -- 17th century
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Intellectual cooperation -- 18th century
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Literary Criticism: European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literary Criticism: Modern / 18th Century.
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Intellectual cooperation.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bour, Isabel
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Brewer, Daniel
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Donato, Clorinda
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Franklin, Michael T
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Gallien, Claire
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Hamou, Philippe
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Imbruglia, Girolamo
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Lurbe, Pierre
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Mankin, Robert
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| ISBN |
9781611487893 |
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1611487897 |
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