Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment: The Genius of Every Place

The book re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship, covering a range of experience from the gallows to the landscape garden and from heroic antiquity to Romantic-era France.

Format: Hardback
Length: 390 pages
Publication date: 15 April 2024
Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Howard Weinbrot's legacy is honored and extended in this volume, which re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that follow, the contributors not only explore biographies of both highly esteemed figures and notorious deviants but also investigate the very concept of Enlightenment as it has evolved from the eighteenth century to today. The final section features chapters that probe the complex interaction of identity, persona, and place, traversing the countless locales in which the British—and the international—eighteenth century emerged. The volume ultimately covers a range of experience that extends from the gallows to the landscape garden and from heroic antiquity to Romantic-era France. Juxtaposing the local and particular against the grand and universal, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment testifies to the complexity and ongoing significance of eighteenth-century culture.

Weight: 724g
Dimension: 160 x 236 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781611463293