Natural History in Early Modern France - The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre

Garrod, Smith and the contributors of the volume envisage the longue durée poetics of an early modern genre. They interpret its poetics alongside its various epistemic agenda and make a case for the literary status of natural history.

About the author

Raphaële Garrod, Ph.D. (2011), Trinity College, Cambridge, is research associate at Cambridge and incoming associate professor of early modern French at the University of Oxford. She has published on early modern French and neo-Latin intellectual history and literature.

Paul J. Smith, Ph.D. (1985), Leiden University, is professor of French literature at that University. He has published widely on early modern French literature, its reception in the Netherlands, and early modern natural history.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2018
• EAN: 9789004375697
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37569-7
• No. of pages: 310
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 241 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 612 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)