Child of the Enlightenment (Pb)

Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-27364-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 556 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 855 g

Reihe: Egodocuments and History Series

A diary kept by a boy in the 1790s sheds new light on the rise of autobiographical writing in the 19th century and sketches a panoramic view of Europe in the Age of Enlightenment. The French Revolution and the Batavian Revolution in the Netherlands provide the backdrop to this study, which ranges from changing perceptions of time, space and nature to the thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and its influence on such far-flung fields as education, landscape gardening and politics. The book describes the high expectations people had of science and medicine, and their disappointment at the failure of these new branches of learning to cure the world of its ills.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baggerman, Arianne

Dekker, Rudolf M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue

1. An Enlightened Education
2. Otto’s Diary
3. Required Reading
4. The Garden as a Pedagogical Project
5. Social World
6. Broadening Horizons
7. Changing Concepts of Time
8. Reconstructing Man and Society
9. Revolution in the Netherlands
10. Children of the Future
11. Theophilanthropists and Physico-Theologians
12. The Vulnerable Body

Epilogue

Notes
List of Illustrations
Index
Illustration Credits

Über Autor(innen)

Arianne Baggerman (Erasmus University Rotterdam and University of Amsterdam) She has published books and articles on the history of writing, publishing and reading. Her dissertation on book publishing in the Netherlands in the 18th and 19th centuries will be published in English by Brill.

Rudolf Dekker is the author of Humour in Dutch Culture of the Golden Age (Palgrave 2001) and the editor of Egodocuments and History: Autobiographical Writing in its Social Context since the Middle Ages (Verloren 2002). Together with Arianne Baggerman, he directs the Institute for Egodocuments and History (www.egodocument.net).