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The unfinished Enlightenment : description in the age of the encyclopedia / Joanna Stalnaker.
LIBRA PQ265 .S72 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stalnaker, Joanna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Description (Rhetoric)--History--18th century.
- Description (Rhetoric).
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French--History and criticism.
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French.
- Natural history--France--History--18th century.
- Natural history.
- Enlightenment--France.
- Enlightenment.
- History.
- France.
- France--Intellectual life--18th century.
- Intellectual life.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448645
- 0801448646
- OCLC:
- 436221285
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