Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750–1820
Moved by Stone
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 3 September 2020
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350144026
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 581 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 bw illus 92
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Long description:
This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asa Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis.
The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The science of sensuous cognition
Part 1: Approaches
1. Emma Hamilton's Attitudes
2. Herder's 'Feeling Imagination'
3. Charlotte Eaton's Rome as Theatre
4. Goethe's 'Seeing Hand'
Part 2: Apprehensions
5. Time Travellers
6. Frankenstein's Venus
7. Belongings in Museums
Part 3: Appreciations
8. Roman Novels
9. Forever Young
10. Mary Shelley's 'Desart Ruins'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes
Index
