Table of Contents
List of Contributors
7
Acknowledgements
9
Introduction, Louise Lyle and David McCallam
11
Section 1: The Enlightenment
Natural Catastrophe in Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle:
Earth Science, Aesthetics, Anthropology
Benoît de Baere
19
When Geology Encounters a Real Catastrophe: From
Theoretical Earthquakes to the Lisbon Disaster
Grégory Quenet
37
Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates
of the Encyclopédie
Rebecca Ford
57
Peat Bogs, Marshes and Fen as Disputed Landscapes in
Late Eighteenth-Century France and England
Ian D. Rotherham and David McCallam
75
Section 2: Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century
“Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…”: Spatial Structure
in Saint-Simonian Poetics
Greg Kerr
91
Pierre Leroux and the Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation
in Nineteenth-Century France
Ceri Crossley
105
List of Contributors
7
Acknowledgements
9
Introduction, Louise Lyle and David McCallam
11
Section 1: The Enlightenment
Natural Catastrophe in Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle:
Earth Science, Aesthetics, Anthropology
Benoît de Baere
19
When Geology Encounters a Real Catastrophe: From
Theoretical Earthquakes to the Lisbon Disaster
Grégory Quenet
37
Images of the Earth, Images of Man: The Mineralogical Plates
of the Encyclopédie
Rebecca Ford
57
Peat Bogs, Marshes and Fen as Disputed Landscapes in
Late Eighteenth-Century France and England
Ian D. Rotherham and David McCallam
75
Section 2: Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century
“Nous avons enlacé le globe de nos réseaux…”: Spatial Structure
in Saint-Simonian Poetics
Greg Kerr
91
Pierre Leroux and the Circulus: Soil, Socialism and Salvation
in Nineteenth-Century France
Ceri Crossley
105