Transfiguring the arts and sciences : knowledge and cultural institutions in the Romantic age / Jon Klancher, under contract to Cambridge University Press.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-294) and index.
Contents:
From the age of projects to the age of institutions -- The administrator as cultural producer: restructuring the arts and sciences -- Wild bibliography: the rise and fall of book history in the nineteenth century -- Print and institution in the making of art controversy -- History and organization in the romantic-age sciences -- The Coleridge institution -- Dissenting from the "arts and sciences" -- Epilogue: transatlantic crossings.
Summary:
In this important and innovative study Jon Klancher shows how the Romantic age produced a new discourse of the "Arts and Sciences" by reconfiguring the Enlightenment's idea of knowledge and by creating new kinds of cultural institutions with unprecedented public impact. ... Taking a historical and cross-disciplinary approach, he opens up Romantic literary and critical writing to transformations in the history of science, history of the book, art history, and the little-known history of arts-and-sciences administration that linked early modern projects to nineteenth- and twentieth-cnetury modes of organizing "knowledges." His conclusions transformthe ways we think about knowledge, both in the Romantic period and in our own. -- Cover.
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