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Author_Jeff Loveland
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eighteenth-century natural history
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French Enlightenment
Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Histoire naturelle
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- ISBN 9780729407472
- Weight: 450g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2001
- Publisher: Liverpool University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the rhetorical dimension of eighteenth-century natural history. It focuses on the French naturalist and literary stylist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, author of the bestselling multi-volume Histoire naturelle (1749-1789). Natural history as Buffon and his contemporaries knew it remains a fascinating object of study for its breadth, its cultural openness, and its disorderly energy. Rhetoric here is understood as a set of techniques for attracting and persuading an audience. As a contribution both to literary studies and to the history of science, Rhetoric and natural history adds to our understanding of the intellectual culture of the French Enlightenment.
Jeff Loveland is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Utah Tech University. Much of his research concerns the history of encyclopedias, especially eighteenth-century European encyclopedias. His publications include The Early Britannica (1768-1803) (2009, co-edited with Frank A. Kafker) and The European Encyclopedia, from 1650 to the Twenty-First Century (2019).
