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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Stalnaker Joanna"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The unfinished Enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : description in the age of the encyclopedia / / Joanna Stalnaker"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Ithaca [N.Y.], : Cornell University Press, 2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"0-8014-6234-7"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (256 p.)"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"840.9/005"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"French literature - 18th century - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Description (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French - History and criticism"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Natural history - France - History - 18th century"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Enlightenment - France"]
[{"$nulls":4},"France Intellectual life 18th century"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Note generali","Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph"]
[{"$nulls":3},"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"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."]
[{"$nulls":3},"Sommario/riassunto","In The Unfinished Enlightenment, Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Through a series of readings of natural histories, encyclopedias, scientific poetry, and urban topographies, the book uncovers the deep epistemological and literary tensions that made description a central preoccupation for authors such as Buffon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Diderot, Delille, and Mercier. Stalnaker argues that Enlightenment description was the site of competing truth claims that would eventually resolve themselves in the modern polarity between literature and science. By the mid-nineteenth century, the now habitual association between description and the novel was already firmly anchored in French culture, but just a century earlier, in the diverse network of articles on description in Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and in the works derived from it, there was not a single mention of the novel. Instead, we find articles on description in natural history, geometry, belles-lettres, and poetry. Stalnaker builds on the "]
[{"$nulls":4},"premise that the tendency to view description as the inevitable (and subservient) partner of narration-rather than as a universal tool for making sense of knowledge in all fields-has obscured the central place of description in Enlightenment discourse. As a result, we have neglected some of the most original and experimental works of the eighteenth century."]