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In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stalnaker, Joanna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Temas:
1700-1799
French literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Description (Rhetoric) > History > 18th century.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French > History and criticism.
Natural history > France > History > 18th century.
Enlightenment > France.
Littérature française > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Discours descriptif > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Encyclopédies et dictionnaires français > Histoire et critique.
Sciences naturelles > France > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Siècle des Lumières > France.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Description (Rhetoric)
Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French
Enlightenment
French literature
Intellectual life
Natural history
France > Intellectual life > 18th century.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 18e siècle.
France
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Buffon and Daubenton's two horses
  • Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant
  • Diderot's word machine
  • Delille's little encyclopedia
  • Mercier's unframed Paris
  • Description in revolution
  • Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias.

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