The formation of nature description in the descriptive poesy of 18th century - reception of natural history works and variation

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370366
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: Inoue Sakurako 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 准教授 (10422908)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 仏文学 / 哲学 / 美学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The Descriptive Poesy that developed in the second half of the Eighteenth Century of France, chants not only divers aspects of natural beings, but also various emotional experiences of human beings who live in the nature. This research revealed the influences of natural history works in the transformation of the nature description. It also examined the relations between the anthropology of Saint-Lambert and the works of Rousseau or Diderot, or the relations between The Seasons and the Encyclopedie. In this way, it insisted on the necessity to reevaluate the Descriptive Poesy, the genre that was neglected a long time.

Free Research Field

18世紀フランス文学