Minute Particulars
David Allen, 6 February 1986
New Images of the Natural in France: A study in European Cultural History 1750-1800
by D.G. Charlton.
Cambridge, 254 pp., £25, December 1984,0 521 24940 6 Show More
by D.G. Charlton.
Cambridge, 254 pp., £25, December 1984,
Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account 1760-1840
by Barbara Maria Stafford.
MIT, 645 pp., £39.95, July 1984,0 262 19223 3 Show More
by Barbara Maria Stafford.
MIT, 645 pp., £39.95, July 1984,
“... professor of French, which represent major journeys of exploration deep into its heart. Professor Charlton’s is the less ambitious of the two. Because its approach is less overwhelmingly a visual one, it also offers the easier way in. Following in the footsteps of Daniel Mornet, over seventy years ago, it surveys afresh the new sentiment de la nature that ... ”
