Divining nature : aesthetics of enchantment in Enlightenment France / / Tili Boon Cuillé [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Cuillé Tili Boon
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 700.108094409033
• Soggetto topico: Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in art; Nature in literature; Science and the arts - France - History - 18th century; Art and natural history - France - History - 18th century; Philosophy of nature - France - History - 18th century; Enlightenment - France
• Soggetto non controllato: Enthusiasm; Illusion; Imagination; Marvelous; Melancholy; Memory; Opera; Spectacle of Nature; Sublime; Wonder
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili Boon Cuillé questions the accuracy of this narrative by investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason. Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine arts, Cuillé examines the representation of natural phenomena - whether harmonious or discordant - in natural history, painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and Stal. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional responses to the 'spectacle of nature' in eighteenth-century France included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the 'sentiment of divinity.'
• Titolo autorizzato: Divining nature
• ISBN: 1-5036-1417-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746986303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Stanford scholarship online.