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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 Cuill 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, Cuill 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 Stal. 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 __Encyclopdie__ and to contemporary theorizations of the sublime. As Cuill reveals, the marvelous was not eradicated but instead preserved through the establi

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Author

Tili Boon Cuillé

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781503614178

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Nature, Science