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Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens Yasmin Haskell
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Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
Yasmin Haskell
Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
256 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 23, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780715637234 |
| Publishers | Duckworth Overlook |
| Pages | 280 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 241 × 20 mm · 590 g |
| Language | English |