Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 – ‘Liberalis’ – Renaissance Humanism (pp. 1-12)
Chapter 2 – ‘To Furnish Thee to Belmont’ – William Shakespeare‘s ― “The Merchant of Venice” (pp. 13-22)
Chapter 3 – ‘L‘uomo Universale’ – Leonardo Da Vinci‘s ‘Vitruvian Man’ (pp. 23-30)
Chapter 4 – ‘Linearis’ – Renaissance Linear Perspective (pp. 31-38)
Chapter 5 – Deus Ex Machine – Goethe‘s ― “Faust: A Tragedy” (pp. 39-50)
Chapter 6 – The Man ‘With Roman Ideas’ – Napoleonic Portraiture (pp. 51-58)
Chapter 7 – ‘Like a Picture’ – Enlightenment and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Britain (pp. 59-70)
Chapter 8 – ‘The Pensive Wand‘rer in Their Shades’ – The Evangelists, Mungo Park and the Slave Writers (pp. 71-78)
Chapter 9 – ‘The Most Valuable Cargo …’ – Early Colonial Christian Encounters in New Zealand (pp. 79-86)
Chapter 10 – ‘The Dolphin and the Sextant’ – Traditional Knowledge and Modernity in Polynesian Navigation (pp. 87-98)
Chapter 11 – ‘Lonesome Spirit of the South Pole’ – Captain Cook‘s Voyages and Coleridge‘s ― “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (pp. 99-110)
Chapter 12 – Xanadu – Symbolism and Imagination in Samuel Taylor Coleridge‘s ‘Kubla Kahn’ (pp. 111-118)
Conclusion
References
Index
