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Author Cuillé, Tili Boon, author.

Title Divining nature : aesthetics of enchantment in Enlightenment France / Tili Boon Cuillé.

Publication Info. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
still image sti rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
nat Americans lcdgt
gdr Women lcdgt
Eighteenth century lcsh
Enlightenment lcsh
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Biography 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).
Note Print version record.
Subject 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
Chronological Term 1700-1799
Indexed Term Enthusiasm.
Illusion.
Imagination.
Marvelous.
Melancholy.
Memory.
Opera.
Spectacle of Nature.
Sublime.
Wonder.
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Cuillé, Tili Boon. Divining nature. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021] 9781503613362 (DLC) 2020019958 (OCoLC)1138513024
ISBN 9781503614178 electronic book
1503614174 electronic book
9781503613362 hardcover
Standard No. AU@ 000069887933

 
    
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