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Joanna Stalnaker - The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia - 9780801448645 - V9780801448645
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The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia

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Description for The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5. BIC Classification: DSBD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801448645
SKU
V9780801448645
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Ref
99-1

About Joanna Stalnaker
Joanna Stalnaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University.

Reviews for The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia
"The Unfinished Enlightenment is a rare example of genuine interdisciplinary work. Joanna Stalnaker's focus on the theory and practice of description in late eighteenth-century France allows her first to illuminate in a highly original way the rhetorical and poetic dimensions of natural scientific discourse in the period. At the same time, she emphasizes the very important role natural philosophy and ... Read more

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