Mapping the Paths of Knowledge: The Encyclopédie
and Enlightenment Modes of Error
David Bates, University of British Columbia
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The Bubonic Plague in the Age of Enlightenment
Daniel Gordon, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Description in the Age of Myth
Christian Lavagno, Forschungsschwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft

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Natural Histories, National Identities
Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook, University of California at Santa Barbara

The History of Realism: A History of Trust in Description?
Wolfgang Klein, Forschungsschwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft

Neither Falsification nor Corroboration: The Aesthetic in Voltaire's Candide and Friedrich Nicolai's Sempronius Gundibert
Waltraud Naumann-Beyer, Forschungsschwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft

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Empirical Particular and Evocative Whole: Winckelmann's Descriptions of Antique Statuary
Alex Potts, Goldsmiths College, University of London

Diderot's "Visual Organ"
John Goodman, Columbia University
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Excited Ideas: Description and the Monstrous
Elizabeth Harries, Smith College

At the Boundaries of Description: Death--Pain--Performance
Inge Baxmann, Forschungsschwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft

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Paradisal Arithmetic: The Description of Persons and the Politics of Generation in Paradise Lost
David Glimp, The Johns Hopkins University

Representing the People: Jean-Baptiste Moheau's Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France
Joshua Cole, University of Georgia

Description Within the Framework of a Comparative Sign Theory of Saying and Showing : The Economic Thinking of Adam Smith and its Rhetorical and Semiotical Aspects
Michael Franz, Forschungsschwerpunkt Literaturwissenschaft

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