Frans De Bruyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frans De Bruyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frans |
| FAMILY NAME | De Bruyn |
| SIGNATURE | DE BRUYN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction [en français]
Introduction [in English]
Enlightenment, Improvement and Experimentation
The eighteenth century is the richest period of georgic writing in English literary history. No era before or since exhibits a like range of experimentation with the georgic form, from translations and formal imitations of the Virgilian original to prose essays, pamphlets, treatises, periodicals and technical manuals. Though various in form and purpose, these texts declare their georgic affiliation by the tropes and themes they employ and by the …
Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850
In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteen…
Culture of the Seven Years' War
The Culture of the Seven Years' War
The Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century – Winston Churchill called it the first "world war" – and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years’ War remains woefully understudied.The Culture of the Seven Years’ War is the first collection of essays …
From Vernon to Wolfe
Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years’ War
Reading Virgil's Georgics as a Scientific Text
In this paper I argue that Virgil’s Georgics was taken seriously in the early decades of the eighteenth century as a scientific document. This view of the poem underlies a bitter dispute that broke out between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer over the technical merits of Virgil’s agricultural precepts, a controversy I trace in some detail. I consider how and why the Georgics could be read in this way, and I argue that Tull’s attack on the didactic…
From Georgic Poetry to Statistics and Graphs
This essay examines the emergent science of statistics in eighteenth-century Europe as a mode of representation and demonstrates its connections with more conventional literary representations in the period. The essay focuses on two central questions: how statistics, charts, and graphs functioned as modes of representation and what it is they were thought to represent. Statistics and graphs, it is argued, bear significant affinities with some maj…
The Classical Silva and the Generic Development of Scientific Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
In this paper I propose to explore some aspects of the development of scientific and technical writing in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century England, in particular its relation to preexisting literary genres. These generic affiliations comprise numerous strands, including the aphorism, the essay, the georgic, the letter, and the silva. 1 The latter form, largely unknown and unpracticed today, will be the primary focus in the discussion that fol…
Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid
Research Article| April 01 2000 Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: An Emblem Book of the Folly of Speculation in the Bubble Year 1720 Frans De Bruyn Frans De Bruyn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-24-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Frans De Bruyn; Reading Het groote ta…
Reading Virgil's Georgics as a Scientific Text
In this paper I argue that Virgil’s Georgics was taken seriously in the early decades of the eighteenth century as a scientific document. This view of the poem underlies a bitter dispute that broke out between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer over the technical merits of Virgil’s agricultural precepts, a controversy I trace in some detail. I consider how and why the Georgics could be read in this way, and I argue that Tull’s attack on the didactic…
From Georgic Poetry to Statistics and Graphs
This essay examines the emergent science of statistics in eighteenth-century Europe as a mode of representation and demonstrates its connections with more conventional literary representations in the period. The essay focuses on two central questions: how statistics, charts, and graphs functioned as modes of representation and what it is they were thought to represent. Statistics and graphs, it is argued, bear significant affinities with some maj…
The Classical Silva and the Generic Development of Scientific Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
In this paper I propose to explore some aspects of the development of scientific and technical writing in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century England, in particular its relation to preexisting literary genres. These generic affiliations comprise numerous strands, including the aphorism, the essay, the georgic, the letter, and the silva. 1 The latter form, largely unknown and unpracticed today, will be the primary focus in the discussion that fol…
Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid
Research Article| April 01 2000 Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: An Emblem Book of the Folly of Speculation in the Bubble Year 1720 Frans De Bruyn Frans De Bruyn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-24-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Frans De Bruyn; Reading Het groote ta…
Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid
Research Article| April 01 2000 Reading Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid: An Emblem Book of the Folly of Speculation in the Bubble Year 1720 Frans De Bruyn Frans De Bruyn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2000) 24 (2): 1–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-24-2-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Frans De Bruyn; Reading Het groote ta…
The Classical Silva and the Generic Development of Scientific Writing in Seventeenth-Century England
In this paper I propose to explore some aspects of the development of scientific and technical writing in seventeenth- and eighteenth- century England, in particular its relation to preexisting literary genres. These generic affiliations comprise numerous strands, including the aphorism, the essay, the georgic, the letter, and the silva. 1 The latter form, largely unknown and unpracticed today, will be the primary focus in the discussion that fol…
Reading Virgil's Georgics as a Scientific Text
In this paper I argue that Virgil’s Georgics was taken seriously in the early decades of the eighteenth century as a scientific document. This view of the poem underlies a bitter dispute that broke out between Jethro Tull and Stephen Switzer over the technical merits of Virgil’s agricultural precepts, a controversy I trace in some detail. I consider how and why the Georgics could be read in this way, and I argue that Tull’s attack on the didactic…
From Georgic Poetry to Statistics and Graphs
This essay examines the emergent science of statistics in eighteenth-century Europe as a mode of representation and demonstrates its connections with more conventional literary representations in the period. The essay focuses on two central questions: how statistics, charts, and graphs functioned as modes of representation and what it is they were thought to represent. Statistics and graphs, it is argued, bear significant affinities with some maj…
The Culture of the Seven Years' War
The Seven Years’ War (1756–1763) was the decisive conflict of the eighteenth century – Winston Churchill called it the first "world war" – and the clash which forever changed the course of North American history. Yet compared with other momentous conflicts like the Napoleonic Wars or the First World War, the cultural impact of the Seven Years’ War remains woefully understudied.The Culture of the Seven Years’ War is the first collection of essays …
From Vernon to Wolfe
Olaudah Equiano and the Seven Years’ War
Sporting Cultures, 1650–1850
In the eighteenth century sport as we know it emerged as a definable social activity. Hunting and other country sports became the source of significant innovations in visual art; racing and boxing generated important subcultures; and sport's impact on good health permeated medical, historical, and philosophical writings. Sporting Cultures, 1650-1850 is a collection of essays that charts important developments in the study of sport in the eighteen…
Culture of the Seven Years' War
Enlightenment, Improvement and Experimentation
The eighteenth century is the richest period of georgic writing in English literary history. No era before or since exhibits a like range of experimentation with the georgic form, from translations and formal imitations of the Virgilian original to prose essays, pamphlets, treatises, periodicals and technical manuals. Though various in form and purpose, these texts declare their georgic affiliation by the tropes and themes they employ and by the …
Introduction [en français]
Introduction [in English]
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