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Chamfort, Sébastien Roch Nicolas --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Académie française --- History. --- France --- History --- Histoire --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Literature and the revolution --- Académie française --- Chamfort, Nicolas --- Chamfort, Sébastien --- Literature and the revolution. --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch Nicolas --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas de --- Revolution, 1789-1799 --- de Chamfort, Sébastien Roch Nicolas --- Sébastien-Roch, Nicolas --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, - 1740?-1794 - Criticism and interpretation --- France - History - Revolution, 1789-1799 - Literature and the revolution --- Chamfort, Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas, - 1740?-1794

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This study explores the explosive history of volcanoes and volcanic thought in eighteenth-century Europe, arguing that the topic of the volcano informed almost all areas of human enquiry and endeavour at the time. Encountered on the Grand Tour, sought out by scientific explorers or endured by local populations in southern Italy and Iceland, erupting volcanoes were a physical reality for many Europeans in the eighteenth-century. For many others, they represented the very image of overwhelming natural power, whether this was ultimately attributed to spiritual or material causes. As such, the volcano proved an effective and versatile ‘tool for thinking’ in a century which ushered in modernity on several fronts: continental tourism, new earth sciences, the sublime and picturesque in art, industrial and political revolution, the conception of the modern nation-state, and early intimations of environmental and climate change. But the volcano also gives us, in the twenty-first century, a privileged site (as both topography and topos) at which we can reconnect disparate and divided fields of research across the sciences and the humanities. Drawing on a rich variety of multi-lingual primary sources and the latest critical thinking, this study combines material and symbolic readings of eighteenth-century volcanism, constantly shifting frameworks, so as to consider this topical object through different disciplinary perspectives. The volcano is clearly transnational; this research also demonstrates how it is fundamentally transdisciplinary.

Geology. Earth sciences --- History of civilization --- anno 1700-1799 --- Europe --- Volcanoes --- Volcanic eruptions --- Volcanology --- Philosophy of nature --- History --- Volcanic geology --- Volcanics --- Vulcanology --- Geology --- Volcanism --- Eruptions, Volcanic --- Natural disasters --- Volcanos --- Landforms --- Eruptions

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This collection of essays explores how Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment developments in the earth sciences and related fields (paleontology, mining, archeology, seismology, oceanography, evolution, et cetera) impacted on contemporary French culture. They reveal that geological ideas were a much more pervasive and influential cultural force than has hitherto been supposed. From the mid-eighteenth century, with the publication of Buffon’s seminal Théorie de la Terre (1749), until the early twentieth century, concepts and figures drawn from the earth sciences inspired some of the most important French philosophers, novelists, political theorists, historians and popularizers of science of the time. This book charts the original and influential ways in which French writers and thinkers, such as Buffon, d’Holbach, Balzac, Sand, Verne, Gide and Malraux, exploited the earth sciences for very different ends. This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and scholars of French literature in the modern period, cultural historians of modern France, scholars of European studies, of French political history, of the History of Ideas or the History of Science as well as researchers in landscape and physical geography.

History of civilization --- Geology. Earth sciences --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Earth sciences --- French culture. --- Geowissenschaften. --- Kultur. --- Literatur. --- Rezeption. --- History --- Geschichte 1740-1940. --- France --- Frankreich. --- Civilization --- Science and civilization --- Science --- Science in literature --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Social aspects --- Philosophy

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This study explores the explosive history of volcanoes and volcanic thought in eighteenth-century Europe, arguing that the topic of the volcano informed almost all areas of human enquiry and endeavour at the time. Encountered on the Grand Tour, sought out by scientific explorers or endured by local populations in southern Italy and Iceland, erupting volcanoes were a physical reality for many Europeans in the eighteenth-century. For many others, they represented the very image of overwhelming natural power, whether this was ultimately attributed to spiritual or material causes. As such, the volcano proved an effective and versatile ‘tool for thinking’ in a century which ushered in modernity on several fronts: continental tourism, new earth sciences, the sublime and picturesque in art, industrial and political revolution, the conception of the modern nation-state, and early intimations of environmental and climate change. But the volcano also gives us, in the twenty-first century, a privileged site (as both topography and topos) at which we can reconnect disparate and divided fields of research across the sciences and the humanities. Drawing on a rich variety of multi-lingual primary sources and the latest critical thinking, this study combines material and symbolic readings of eighteenth-century volcanism, constantly shifting frameworks, so as to consider this topical object through different disciplinary perspectives. The volcano is clearly transnational; this research also demonstrates how it is fundamentally transdisciplinary.