Infrastructures of enlightenment : road-making, the public sphere, and the emergence of literature

Author

Laugero, Greg

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Eighteenth-century studies. 1995, Num. 1, Vol. 29, 45-67, 2 maps

ISSN

0013-2586

Abstract (en)

Between 1750 and 1770, the landscape of England was transformed by the building and improving of roads on an unprecedented scale. The result was simultaneously an apparent fragmentation - a landscape literally divided by administrative units called turnpike trusts - and a new unification - the linking together of parts into a new national whole. Laugero examines this material and conceptual event of "unification" through "fragmentation" in relation to the making of roads and the emergence of literature ca.1750-1830. His argument is that the arrangement of those parts and wholes was not only geographical: the circulation of individuals, commodities and information through new channels of communication and exchange, particularly the literary, brought about new kinds of individuals for a new kind of society.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- United Kingdom
• Roads
• Great Britain
• 1700-1900
• Society
• Infrastructure
• Public
• Literature

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Architecture -- Royaume-Uni
• Route
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-1900
• Société
• Infrastructure
• Public
• Littérature

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19960401-00284811

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