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Author Cuillé, Tili Boon, author.

Title Divining nature : aesthetics of enchantment in Enlightenment France / Tili Boon Cuillé
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 333 pages) : illustrations
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
Analysis Enthusiasm
Illusion
Imagination
Marvelous
Melancholy
Memory
Opera
Spectacle of Nature
Sublime
Wonder
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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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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
Art and natural history
Arts, French -- Themes, motives
Enlightenment
Natural history literature
Nature in literature
Philosophy of nature
Science and the arts
France
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020019959
ISBN 9781503614178
1503614174