 | The Unfinished Enlightenment: Description in the Age of the Encyclopedia Subjects: 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; ; In The Unfinished Enlightenment , Joanna Stalnaker offers a fresh look at the French Enlightenment by focusing on the era's vast, collective attempt to compile an ongoing and provisional description of the world. Joanna Stalnaker is Assistant Professor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University. |
