The unfinished Enlightenment [electronic resource] : description in the age of the encyclopedia / Joanna Stalnaker.
By: Stalnaker, Joanna.
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BookPublisher: Ithaca [N.Y.] : Cornell University Press, 2010Description: xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): French literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Description (Rhetoric) -- History -- 18th century | Encyclopedias and dictionaries, French -- History and criticism | Natural history -- France -- History -- 18th century | Enlightenment -- France | France -- Intellectual life -- 18th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 840.9/005 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-231) and index.
Buffon and Daubenton's two horses -- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's strawberry plant -- Diderot's word machine -- Delille's little encyclopedia -- Mercier's unframed Paris -- Description in revolution -- Conclusion : virtual encyclopedias.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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