Histoires de la terre : : earth sciences and French culture, 1740-1940 / / edited by Louise Lyle and David McCallam.
This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, et cetera) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 322 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Notes: | Selected conference papers. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Louise Lyle and David McCallam
- Natural Catastrophe in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle: Earth, Science, Aesthetics, Anthropology / Benoît de Baere
- When Geology Encounters a Real Catastrophe: From Theoretical Earthquakes to the Lisbon Disaster / Grégory Quenet
- Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates of the Encyclopédie / Rebecca Ford
- Peat Bogs, Marshes and Fen as Disputed Landscapes in Late Eighteenth-Century France and England / Ian D. Rotherham and David McCallam
- “Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…”: Spatial Structure in Saint-Simonian Poetics / Greg Kerr
- Pierre Leroux and the Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation in Nineteenth-Century France / Ceri Crossley
- Mind as Ruin: Balzac’s “Sarrasine” and the Archaeology of Self / Scott Sprenger
- Archaeology – A Passion of George Sand / Claire Le Guillou
- Jules Verne and the Discovery of the Natural World / Tim Unwin
- Jules Verne’s Transylvania: Cartographic Omissions / Anca Mitroi
- Undermining Body and Mind? The Impact of the Underground in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Literature / Kiera Vaclavik
- Alfred Jarry’s Neo-Science: Liquidizing Paris and Debunking Verne / Ben Fisher
- Reading Environmental Apocalypse in J.-H. Rosny Aîné’s Terrestrial Texts / Louise Lyle
- André Gide, Eugène Rouart and le retour à la terre / David H. Walker
- Down to Earth: André Malraux’s Political Itinerary and the Natural World / Martin Hurcombe
- Index of Names.