The Unfinished Enlightenment : Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (259 pages)
Cover -- THE UNFINISHED ENLIGHTENMENT -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Natural Histories -- 1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- 2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- Part II: Encyclopedias -- 3. Diderot's Word Machine -- 4. Delille's Little Encyclopedia -- Part III: Moral and Political Topographies -- 5. Mercier's Unframed Paris -- 6. Description in Revolution -- Conclusion: Virtual Encyclopedias -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.
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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. France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.