Child of the Enlightenment : Revolutionary Europe Reflected in a Boyhood Diary (Egodocuments and History Series) （Reprint）

Baggerman, Arianne/ Dekker, Rudolf/ Webb, Diane (TRN)

Brill Academic Pub（2014/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 553 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004273641
• DDC分類 940

Full Description

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.

Contents

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