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035			_a(DE-B1597)9780801462344
035			_a(DE-B1597)535296
035			_a(OCoLC)1129207482
040			_aDE-B1597 _beng _cDE-B1597 _erda
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072		7	_aLIT004150 _2bisacsh
082	0	4	_a840.9 005 00 _222
084			_aonline - DeGruyter
100	1		_aStalnaker, Joanna _eautore
245	1	4	_aThe Unfinished Enlightenment : _bDescription in the Age of the Encyclopedia / _cJoanna Stalnaker.
264		1	_aIthaca, NY : _bCornell University Press, _c[2011]
264		4	_c©2011
300			_a1 online resource (256 p.) : _b5 halftones
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
347			_atext file _bPDF _2rda
505	0	0	_tFrontmatter -- _tCONTENTS -- _tFIGURES -- _tPREFACE -- _tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- _tINTRODUCTION -- _tPart I: Natural Histories -- _t1. Buffon and Daubenton's Two Horses -- _t2. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Strawberry Plant -- _tPart II: Encyclopedias -- _t3. Diderot's Word Machine -- _t4. Delille's Little Encyclopedia -- _tPart III: Moral and Political Topographies -- _t5. Mercier's Unframed Paris -- _t6. Description in Revolution -- _tConclusion: Virtual Encyclopedias -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex
506	0		_arestricted access _uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec _fonline access with authorization _2star
520			_aIn 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 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.
530			_aIssued also in print.
538			_aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546			_aIn English.
588	0		_aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650		0	_aDescription (Rhetoric) _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aEncyclopedias and dictionaries, French _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aEnlightenment _zFrance.
650		0	_aEnlightenment.
650		0	_aFrench literature _y18th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aNatural history _xHistory _y18th century.
650		0	_aNatural history _zFrance _xHistory _y18th century.
650		4	_aEurope.
650		4	_aHistory.
650		4	_aLiterary Studies.
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. _2bisacsh
850			_aIT-RoAPU
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.7591/9780801462344
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801462344
856	4	2	_3Cover _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801462344/original
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