Divining Nature

"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"--

List of contents

Introduction: The Spectacle of Nature

1. The Marvels of Nature in Buffon and Rameau

2. The Philosophy of Nature in Diderot and Rousseau

3. The Harmony of Nature in Paul et Virginie

4. The Poetics of Nature in Ossian and Staël

Epilogue: A Theater of Enchantment

About the author

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).

Product details

• Authors: Tili Boon Cuille, Tili Boon Cuillé, Tili Boon CuillT
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781503613362
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-1336-2
• No. of pages: 350
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies