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Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens de Yasmin Haskell

Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens

Autor Yasmin Haskell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 sep 2014
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472587503
ISBN-10: 1472587502
Pagini: 280
Ilustrații: 7 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

First literary/intellectual biography since the nineteenth century of this significant figure of later Dutch humanism

Notă biografică

Yasmin Haskell has been Cassamarca Foundation Chair in Latin Humanism at the University of Western Australia since 2003. She is a Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions 1100-1800. She is the author of Loyola's Bees: Ideology and Industry in Jesuit Latin Didactic Poetry, winner of the British Academy Postdoctoral Monographs Competition.

Cuprins

List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos I. Finding his Feet: Six or Five?II. Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters III. Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy IV. Writing Home: Lessons from Italy V. Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History VI. Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and ShortConclusion: Notes from the MarginsAppendix: Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens Bibliography Index

Recenzii

Prescribing Ovid will be particularly useful for those interested in the position of Latin in the 18th-century and the Enlightenment. It is also a valuable case study about the ways in which the Republic of Letters was put to practical use during this period. Finally, Heerkens's self-presentation as an 18th-century Ovid is a fascinating case for those working on self-fashioning both in literature in general and in the works of early modern (Neo-Latin) authors in particular.
It required great courage to devote a sizeable monograph to a person who is unfamiliar even to neo-Latin scholars. The book therefore serves as a model to anyone who intends to study one of the hundreds of neglected writers who devoted themselves to Latin literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . . . This book is truly fascinating. It presents Heerkens as a man from the provinces who, thanks to his literary activity and travels, encountered many people from the mainstream Enlightenment movement and the cultural, intellectual, and religious life of his times.
As the history of learning moves towards the study of reception and circulation of knowledge, a study of the use of Latin in the eighteenth century has long been overdue. Latin journals, for example, are largely overlooked in favour of vernacular journals . Haskell's book, then, moves appealingly into this literary wasteland.
It's difficult not to admire the thoroughness of a piece of research that connects so many diverse areas and which has obliged the author to engage with all the European countries traversed by her hero ... An excellent and complete model of intellectual biography.

Descriere

Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.