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UNINA9910785422503321 |
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Autore |
Spary E. C (Emma C.) |
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Titolo |
Utopia's garden [[electronic resource] ] : French natural history from Old Regime to Revolution / / E.C. Spary |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2000 |
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1-283-05859-6 |
9786613058591 |
0-226-76870-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (339 p.) |
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Natural history - France - History - 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-310). |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Place of Histoire naturelle at the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Two. Acting at a Distance: André Thouin and the Function of Botanical Networks -- Chapter Three. Naturalizing the Tree of Liberty: Generation, Degeneration, and Regeneration in the Jardin du Roi -- Chapter Four. Patronage, Community, and Power: Strategies of Self-Presentation in New Regimes -- Chapter Five. The Spectacle of Nature: The Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle and the Jacobins -- Conclusion: Possible Futures -- Appendix. Holders of Scientific Posts at the Jardin du Roi/Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 1750-1793 -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The royal Parisian botanical garden, the Jardin du Roi, was a jewel in the crown of the French Old Regime, praised by both rulers and scientific practitioners. Yet unlike many such institutions, the Jardin not only survived the French Revolution but by 1800 had become the world's leading public establishment of natural history: the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. E. C. Spary traces the scientific, administrative, and political strategies that enabled the foundation of the Muséum, arguing that agriculture and animal breeding rank alongside classification and collections in explaining why natural history was important for French rulers. But the Muséum's success was also a consequence of its employees' Revolutionary rhetoric: by displaying the natural order, they |
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suggested, the institution could assist in fashioning a self-educating, self-policing Republican people. Natural history was presented as an indispensable source of national prosperity and individual virtue. Spary's fascinating account opens a new chapter in the history of France, science, and the Enlightenment. |
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UNINA9910483331103321 |
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Autore |
Jensen Meg |
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The Art and Science of Trauma and the Autobiographical : Negotiated Truths / / by Meg Jensen |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
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[1st ed. 2019.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (XIII, 299 p. 1 illus.) |
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Palgrave Studies in Life Writing, , 2730-9193 |
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Literature, Modern - 20th century |
European literature |
America - Literatures |
Philosophy of mind |
Self |
Collective memory |
Twentieth-Century Literature |
European Literature |
North American Literature |
Philosophy of the Self |
Memory Studies |
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1. The Negotiated Truth -- 2. Valuing the Witness: Typologies of Testimony -- 3. Time, Body, Memory: The Staged Moment in |
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Posttraumatic Letters, Journals, Essays and Memoirs -- 4. What it is like: Fiction, Fear and Narratives of Feeling in Posttraumatic Autobiographical Novels -- 5. Speaking In and Speaking Out: Postttraumatic Poetry and Autography -- 6. Annihilation and Integration in Collective Posttraumatic Monuments, Testimonies and Literary Texts -- 7. The Art and Science of Therapeutic Innovation: Hope for PTSD Sufferers Today and Tomorrow. |
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This book examines posttraumatic autobiographical projects, elucidating the complex relationship between the 'science of trauma' (and how that idea is understood across various scientific disciplines), and the rhetorical strategies of fragmentation, dissociation, reticence and repetitive troping widely used the representation of traumatic experience. From autobiographical fictions to prison poems, from witness testimony to autography, and from testimonio to war memorials, otherwise dissimilar projects speak of past suffering through a limited and even predictable discourse in search of healing. Drawing on approaches from literary, human rights and cultural studies that highlight relations between trauma, language, meaning and self-hood, and the latest research on the science of trauma from the fields of clinical, behavioral and evolutionary psychology and neuroscience, I read such autobiographical projects not as 'symptoms'but as complex interrogative negotiations of trauma and its aftermath: commemorative and performative narratives navigating aesthetic, biological, cultural, linguistic and emotional pressure and inspiration. |
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