Natural history in early modern France : the poetics of an epistemic genre / edited by Raphaele Garrod, Paul J. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrod, Raphaële, editor.

Smith, P. J. (Paul J.), editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; volume 58 - 2018.

Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 58 - 2018

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--France--History.

Natural history.

History.

France.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 294 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Natural History in Early Modern France' offers a longue durée account of recurring poetic structures of the genre through case studies spanning from the Renaissance to the eve of the nineteenth century.0These case studies reveal the lasting epistemic importance of bookish knowledge and commonplacing in the natural-historical description from Belon to Buffon, They also highlight the French reception of Baconianism.0Natural History in Early Modern France makes a case for the literary status of the genre by attending to the permanence of its 'Plinian' features, such as wonders. Natural history was not only concerned with increasingly rational modes of ordering natural particulars: this book reveals its enduring social, affective, spiritual, and aesthetic underpinnings.

Contents:

Introduction. Knowledge and literature: the natural-historical description as epistemic genre / Raphaele Garrod

Deux recueils d'illustrations ornithologiques : les icones avium (1555 et 1560) de Conrad Gessner et les portraits d'oyseaux (1557) de Pierre Belon / Paul J. Smith

Feeling divine nature: natural history, emotions and Bernard Palissy's knowledge practice / Susan Broomhall

L'idee d'un oiseau : l'oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d'une merveille (xvie et xviie siecles) / Arlette Fruet

Du nouveau sur la licorne : le role des cabinets de coriosites dans l'avancee des savoirs / Myriam Marrache-Gouraud

The natural-historical rejuvenation of emblematics: the moral pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin's polyhistor symbolicus / Raphaele Garrod

Natural history and divertissement: J.B. Faultrier's traitte general des oyseaux (1660) / Isabelle Charmantier

At the borders of the metropolis: writing the natural history of Paris in the eighteenth century / Stephane Van Damme

Rewriting Bacon's natural history: Pierre Amboise's translation of Sylva Sylvarum / Dana Jalobeanu

Bacon, experimental philosophy and French enlightenment natural history / Peter R. Anstey

La permanence des savoirs antiques dans l'histoire naturelle du second xviiie siecle / Stephane Schmitt

Empiricism and sensibility in the Australian journal of Theodore Leschenault de la tour (1800-1803) / Paul Gibbard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Natural history in early modern France.

ISBN:

9789004375697

9004375694

OCLC:

1041906966