Author: Christopher P. Heuer File Type: pdf How the far North offered a different kind ofterra incognita for the Renaissance imagination. European narratives of the Atlantic New World tell stories of people and things strange flora, wondrous animals, sun-drenched populations for Europeans to mythologize or exploit. Yet, as Christopher Heuer explains, between 1500 and 1700, one region upended all of these conventions in travel writing, science, and, most unexpectedly, art the Arctic. Icy, unpopulated, visually and temporally abstract, the far Northa different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imaginationoffered more than newstuffto be mapped, plundered, or even seen. Neither a continent, an ocean, nor a meteorological circumstance, the Arctic forced visitors from England, the Netherlands, Germany, and Italy, to grapple with what we would now call a non-site, spurring dozens of previously unknown works, objects, and textsand this all in an intellectual and political milieu crackling with Reformation debates over arts very legitimacy. In Into the White , Heueruses five case studies to probehow the early modern Arctic (as site, myth, and ecology) affected contemporary debates over perception and matter, representation, discovery, and the time of the earthlong before the nineteenth century Romanticized the polar landscape. In the far North, he argues, the Renaissance exotic became something far stranger than the marvelous or the curious, something darkly material and impossible to be mastered, something beyond the idea of image itself. **Review A rigorous and innovative study of sixteenth-century attitudes toward the arctic, Into the White is broadly and seamlessly interdisciplinarytreating religion, environmental history, print history, book history, art historynavigational history, philosophybut never subordinates the visual or treats images as mere illustrations of other concerns. Its dexterity with both sixteenth- and twentiethtwenty-first century art is remarkable. While deploying a rigorous attention to the material and historical specificity of the sixteenth century, it gets at the heart of the most urgent questions of spatial history and representation animating contemporary scholarship. Jennifer L. Roberts , Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University To the extent that the Renaissance moment of perspective and iconoclasm also saw the emergence of a global economy, Into the White is a critique of a capitalist poetics that is always in search of meaning, confident in its capacity to navigate a world in which nature is always available for representation and exploitation. The arctic, Heuer argues, rightly perceived, disrupts confidence in the flow of meaning and capital. Indeed it disrupts right perceiving. Anamorphosis is Heuers brilliant path into an arctic that cannot be seen properly in relation to a perspectival humanist rationalism. The arctic is the landscape of otherness that western modernity never quite resolved into a landscape. Michael Gaudio , Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota For early modern European explorers, the arctic presented both a physical and an epistemological challenge, as unseeable and ungraspable as the invisible God. Into the White elegantly captures how the arctic confounded vision, geographic knowledge, and humanistic verities. Moving fluently across time periods, and making a major contribution to conversations about globalism, art, and ecology, Heuer challenges the complacent understanding of the global Renaissance and generates new ways of thinking across disciplinary boundaries. Rebecca E. Zorach , Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art and Art History, Northwestern University About the Author Christopher P. Heuer is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester, author of The City Rehearsed , and coauthor of Ecologies, Agents, and Terrains and Vision and Communism.

Author: Matthew Warshauer File Type: pdf Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important conceptbut what did it mean to those who used it? Contested Loyalty examines the significance of loyalty across fault lines of gender, social class, and education, race and ethnicity, and political or religious affiliation. These differing vantage points reveal the complicated ways in which loyalties were defined, prioritized, acted upon, and related. While most of the scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, the essays in Contested Loyalty examine the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the north. Essays explore the limitations and incomplete nature of national loyalty and how disparate groups struggled to control its meaning. The authors move beyond the narrow partisan debate over Democratic dissent to examine other challenges to and competing interpretations of national loyalty. Todays leading and emerging scholars examine loyalty through the frame of politics at the state and national level the viewpoints of college educated men as well as the women they courted the attitudes of northern Protestant churches on issues of patriotism and loyalty working class men and women in military industries how employers could use the language of loyalty to take away the rights of workers and the meaning of loyalty in contexts of race and ethnicity. The Union cause was a powerful ideology committing millions of citizens, in the ranks and at home, to a long and bloody war. But loyalty to the Union cause imperfectly explains how citizens reacted to the traumas of war or the ways in which conflicting loyalties played out in everyday life. The essays in this collection point us down the path of greater understanding. **