- Description
- 1 online resource.
- 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"--
- Uniform Title
- Divining nature (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Divining nature (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2020019959
- OCLC
- ssj0002432645
- Author
Cuillé, Tili Boon.
- Title
Divining nature [electronic resource] : aesthetics of enchantment in Enlightenment France / Tili Boon Cuillé.
- Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Note
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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- Other Form:
Print version: Cuillé, Tili Boon. Divining nature Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020. 9781503613362 (DLC) 2020019958