Divining nature : aesthetics of enchantment in Enlightenment France / Tili Boon Cuillé
- Author
- Cuillé, Tili Boon
- Published
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations
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- Contents
- Introduction : the spectacle of nature -- The marvels of nature in Buffon and Rameau -- The philosophy of nature in Diderot and Rousseau -- The harmony of nature in Paul et Virginie -- The poetics of nature in Ossian and Staël -- Epilogue : a theater of enchantment.
- Summary
- "Divining Nature traces the philosophical, aesthetic, and affective responses to the "spectacle of nature" across the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century France to uncover the preservation and proliferation of wonder in the age of reason"--
- Subject(s)
- 1700-1799
- Science and the arts—France—History—18th century
- Art and natural history—France—History—18th century
- Philosophy of nature—France—History—18th century
- Natural history literature—France—History—18th century
- Nature in literature—History—18th century
- Arts, French—18th century—Themes, motives
- Enlightenment—France
- Sciences et arts—France—Histoire—18e siècle
- Art et sciences naturelles—France—Histoire—18e siècle
- Philosophie de la nature—France—Histoire—18e siècle
- Sciences naturelles—Documentation—France—Histoire—18e siècle
- Nature dans la littérature—Histoire—18e siècle
- Siècle des Lumières—France
- Arts français—18e siècle—Thèmes, motifs
- Art and natural history
- Arts, French—Themes, motives
- Enlightenment
- Natural history literature
- Nature in literature
- Philosophy of nature
- Science and the arts
- France
- Other Subject(s)
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781503614178 electronic book
1503614174 electronic book
9781503613362 hardcover - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Biographical or Historical Sketch
- Tili Boon Cuillé is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of Narrative Interludes: Musical Tableaux in Eighteenth-Century French Texts (2006).
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