The Society of Dilettanti : archaeology and identity in the British enlightenment / Jason Kelly.
Published / Created:
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.
Physical Description:
xvii, 366 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustration on lining paper.
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.
Subject Terms:
Society of Dilettanti (London, England) | Group identity -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Archaeology -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Aesthetics, British -- 18th century. | Science -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. | Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.