Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like ...beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
This article uses visualizations of Eliza Haywood's social networks, as described in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743), to make visible her relations with the other characters in the poem, and the ...nature of these affiliations. The tools used to generate these visualizations are GraphViz, an open source visualization software that creates topological graphs from sets of dyadic relations, and SHIVA Graph, an application used to visualize large sets of networks and navigate through them as through a map. In Eliza Haywood's case, this model of social network analysis sheds new light on the nature of Pope's attack on women writers and on the role Pope assigned to the novelist in the cultural space of early eighteenth-century London. These social graphs also make visible the poem's main "connectors," and its "hall of infamy" (i.e., the seventeen characters that seep into all the networks of the poem). By focusing attention on less dense clusters of relations, this model of social network analysis highlights what Mark Granovetter calls "the strength of weak ties," or the role played by peripheral characters within the poem's plot network.
All Things Arabia Baird, Ileana; Yağcıoğlu, Hülya
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By employing the innovative lenses of 'thing theory' and material
culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on
the role played by Arabia's things - from cultural objects to
...commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary
things - in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian
identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that
has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred
years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture,
and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West.
All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and
to stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and
cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths,
knowledge, and things of beauty.
By employing the innovative lenses of ‘thing theory’ and material culture studies, this collection brings together essays focused on the role played by Arabia’s things - from cultural objects to ...commodities to historical and ethnographic artifacts to imaginary things - in creating an Arabian identity over time. The Arabian identity that we convey here comprises both a fabulous Arabia that has haunted the European imagination for the past three hundred years and a real Arabia that has had its unique history, culture, and traditions outside the Orientalized narratives of the West. All Things Arabia aims to dispel existing stereotypes and to stimulate new thinking about an area whose patterns of trade and cosmopolitanism have pollinated the world with lasting myths, knowledge, and things of beauty. Readership: Scholars interested in the study of the material culture of the Middle East/Arabian Peninsula and the wider public interested in the cultures of collection, connoisseurship, and (neo)orientalism(s) at large.
In an attempt to better account for the impressive diversity of positions and relations that characterizes the eighteenth-century world, this collection proposes a new methodological frame, one that ...is less hierarchical in approach and more focused, instead, on the nature of these interactions, on their Addisonian "usefulness," declared goals, and (un)intended results. By shifting focus from a cultural-historicist approach to sociability to the rhizomatic nature of eighteenth-century associat.
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores the Enlightenment's attitude toward things and the relation to human ...subjects in both its geographical inclusiveness and methodological approach. It offers a more encompassing perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British, or British-colonial, borders. This collection includes articles on geographical areas less considered in comparative studies, the consequences of the global circulation of collectibles for the emerging culture of the museum, or the role of exotica in shaping "imaginative" use Edward Said's term; it describes the mind's impulse "to intensify its own sense of itself by dramatizing the distance and difference between what is close to it and what is far away". The articles collected in this book follow in close detail some of these trajectories, in an attempt to highlight patterns of similar or divergent trends, behaviors or themes that reconfigure the understanding of East/West binaries.
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