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Author:

Kelly, Jason M.

Title:

The Society of Dilettanti : archaeology and identity in the British enlightenment / Jason M. Kelly.

Publisher:

Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xvii, 366 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., plans, ports. ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Society of Dilettanti (London, England)
Group identity--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Archaeology--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Aesthetics, British--18th century.
Science--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century.
Society of Dilettanti (London, England)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The dilettanti culture of the eighteenth century -- Libertinism and masculine association in enlightenment London -- Charlemont and Wood in the making of British classical archaeology -- Architecture and archaeology in enlightenment thought -- Archaeology and identity in the British enlightenment -- A "kind of Turkish fabrick": the ethnographic function of the archaeological topography -- The Dilettanti at the end of the enlightenment.

Summary:

Founded in 1732 as a convivial dining club, the Society of Dilettanti became in time a leading sponsor of the British Enlightenment, sponsoring the Royal Academy & the British Museum, & was the first private organization to send an archaeological expedition to Greece.

ISBN:

0300152191 (cl : alk. paper)
9780300152197 (cl : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317471811

LCCN:

2009018222

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)