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New images of the natural in France : a study in European cultural history, 1750-1800 / D.G. Charlton.
LIBRA DC33.4 .C38 1984
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Charlton, D. G. (Donald Geoffrey)
- Series:
- Gifford lectures ; 1982-1983.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Nature (Aesthetics).
- Nature in literature.
- France--Civilization--17th century.
- France.
- France--Civilization--18th century.
- Civilization.
- Europe--Civilization--French influences.
- Europe.
- Europe--Civilization--18th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.
- Contents:
- 1 Contrasts
- 2 Pastoral landscapes
- 3 Wild sublimity
- 4 Sciences of nature
- 5 Death and destruction
- 6 Transoceanic perspectives
- 7 Happy families: the age of innocence
- 8 Happy families: the new Eve
- 9 Town and country
- 10 Unfinished business.
- Notes:
- "The Gifford lectures in the University of St. Andrews, 1982-1983."
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 221-231.
- ISBN:
- 0521249406
- OCLC:
- 11318108
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