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Bricks and Antiquarianism: Masonry and Historical Method in the Historical Sciences
Author(s) -
Ksiazkiewicz Allison
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12729
Subject(s) - narrative , masonry , natural science , natural (archaeology) , principal (computer security) , history , archaeology , art history , classics , anthropology , art , sociology , literature , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , operating system
The role of sentiment in narratives generated by antiquarians, dilettanti and geologists in late eighteenth‐century Britain features as a significant force in the development of the historical sciences. During the fieldwork for and subsequent publication of The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca (1807), by Sir William Gell (1777‐1836), and A Description of the Principal Picturesque Beauties, Antiquities and Geological Phenomena of the Isle of Wight (1816), by his colleague Sir Henry Charles Englefield ( c .1752‐1822), the role of association and sentiment makes visible the ruins of everyday‐type architectures and geological processes, and demonstrates tensions between human‐made and natural artefacts.