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The Crafting and Connoisseurship of Inkstones in Eighteenth-Century China

Body, Text, and Stone: The Crafting and Connoisseurship of Inkstones in Eighteenth-Century China Dorothy Ko Barnard College, Columbia University I’m writing a book that traces the movement of one class of object (the inkstone) and two groups of people (artisans 1 and scholars) through four locales (Zhaoqing肇慶, on the southern edge of the empire; Fuzhou, on the southeastern seaboard; Suzhou, at ...

1 Introduction: culture and power during the long eighteenth century

In December 1774, seventeen-year-old Carl August, Prince of Saxe Weimar, met the celebrated young author Johann Wolfgang Goethe in a Frankfurt hotel room. The meeting was cordial, indeed the two men got along together so splendidly that, less than a year later, Goethe accepted the prince’s invitation to move to Weimar, where he would spend the rest of his long and incredibly productive life. I ...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe