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Natural History in Early Modern France - The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre (Hardcover)
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Natural History in Early Modern France - The Poetics of an Epistemic Genre (Hardcover)
Series: Intersections, 58
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Natural History in Early Modern France offers a longue duree
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, Raphaele Garrod, Paul Gibbard, Dana
Jalobeanu, Myriam Marrache-Gouraud, Stephane Schmitt, Paul J.
Smith, and Stephane Van Damme.
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