New Images of the Natural in France: A Study in European Cultural History 1750-1800

by D. G. Charlton and D.G. Charlton

The latter half of the eighteenth century saw radical changes in the way nature - both external and human nature - was perceived. It is these new perceptions, these new images of the 'the natural' that this book examines: new appreciations of the 'sublime' wildness of landscape; new revelations by the life sciences of natural creative fecundity; new assertions of the innocence of 'natural man', as illustrated by the noble savage, the contented peasant,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521270901
• ISBN13: 9780521270908
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"