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Divining Nature - Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France (Hardcover)
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Divining Nature - Aesthetics of Enchantment in Enlightenment France (Hardcover)
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The Enlightenment remains widely associated with the rise of
scientific progress and the loss of religious faith, a dual
tendency that is thought to have contributed to the disenchantment
of the world. In her wide-ranging and richly illustrated book, Tili
Boon Cuille questions the accuracy of this narrative by
investigating the fate of the marvelous in the age of reason.
Exploring the affinities between the natural sciences and the fine
arts, Cuille examines the representation of natural
phenomena-whether harmonious or discordant-in natural history,
painting, opera, and the novel from Buffon and Rameau to Ossian and
Stael. She demonstrates that philosophical, artistic, and emotional
responses to the "spectacle of nature" in eighteenth-century France
included wonder, enthusiasm, melancholy, and the "sentiment of
divinity." These "passions of the soul," traditionally associated
with religion and considered antithetical to enlightenment, were
linked to the faculties of reason, imagination, and memory that
structured Diderot's Encyclopedie and to contemporary theorizations
of the sublime. As Cuille reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated
but instead preserved through the establishment and reform of major
French cultural institutions dedicated to science, art, religion,
and folklore that were designed to inform, enchant, and persuade.
This book has been made possible in part by the National Endowment
for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
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