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

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''.>

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Yasmin Haskell, Haskell Yasmin
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 25.09.2014
• EAN: 9781472587503
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-8750-3
• Seiten: 280
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Netherlands, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Plays, Playscripts, Literary studies: poetry and poets