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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garrod, Raphaële.

Smith, P. J. (Paul J.)

Series:

Intersections 58.

Intersections: Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; v. 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--France--History.

Natural history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages).

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. These 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. Natural 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. Contributors are: Peter Anstey, Susan Broomhall, Isabelle Charmantier, Arlette Fruet, Raphaële Garrod, Paul Gibbard, Dana Jalobeanu, Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, Stéphane Schmitt, Paul J. Smith, and Stéphane Van Damme.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on the Editors

Notes on the Contributors

Introduction. Knowledge and Literature: The Natural-Historical Description as Epistemic Genre? / Raphaële 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’idée d’un oiseau : l’oiseau de paradis ou la fabrication d’une merveille (XVIe et XVIIe siècles) / Arlette Fruet

Du nouveau sur la licorne : le rôle des cabinets de curiosités dans l’avancée des savoirs / Myriam Marrache-Gouraud

The Natural-Historical Rejuvenation of Emblematics: The Moral Pedagogy of Nicolas Caussin’s Polyhistor Symbolicus / Raphaële Garrod

Natural History and Divertissement: J.B. Faultrier’s Traitté general des oyseaux (1660) / Isabelle Charmantier

At the Borders of the Metropolis: Writing the Natural History of Paris in the Eighteenth Century / Stéphane 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 siècle / Stéphane Schmitt

Empiricism and Sensibility in the Australian Journal of Théodore Leschenault de La Tour (1800-1803) / Paul Gibbard

Back Matter

Index Nominum.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-37570-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004375703 DOI