Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750-1820

Moved by Stone

Dr Helen Slaney (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Roehampton University, UK)

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
21 April 2022

History of art: ancient & classical art; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Western philosophy: Enlightenment

Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception

This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asa Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis.

The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships.

By: Dr Helen Slaney (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Roehampton University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781350194885
ISBN 10: 1350194883
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 21 April 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: The science of sensuous cognition Part 1: Approaches 1. Emma Hamilton's Attitudes 2. Herder's 'Feeling Imagination' 3. Charlotte Eaton's Rome as Theatre 4. Goethe's 'Seeing Hand' Part 2: Apprehensions 5. Time Travellers 6. Frankenstein's Venus 7. Belongings in Museums Part 3: Appreciations 8. Roman Novels 9. Forever Young 10. Mary Shelley's 'Desart Ruins' Conclusion Bibliography Notes Index

Helen Slaney is a researcher in Classics and Program Manager for Graduate Research at La Trobe University, Australia. Her publications include The Senecan Aesthetic: A Performance History (2015) and Seneca: Medea (Bloomsbury, 2019), as well as numerous articles on the reception of antiquity in the early-modern world.

Reviews for Kinaesthesia and Classical Antiquity 1750-1820: Moved by Stone

[In] this important book Slaney gives us a glimpse of what few of us even know we have lost. For that alone, this book is an essential purchase for anyone who cares about the Classical past. - Sun News Tucson