Cover; VISUAL VARIETY AND SPATIAL GRANDEUR; Title; Copyright; Dedication; TABLE OF CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: INFATUATION WITH SPACE; CHAPTER I: THE GROWTH OF SPACE AND VARIETY IN FRENCH LANDSCAPES; CHAPTER II: THE GROWTH OF SPACE AND VARIETY IN FRENCH LITERATURE. LEMAIRE DE BELGES; 1. Lemaire and the painters; 2. Early Manifestations of growth: the Pastoral; 3. Nature in mourning and nature in a dreamland; 4. Microcosm and macrocosm; CHAPTER III: RABELAIS; CHAPTER IV: RONSARD; CONCLUSION: AN ECLIPSE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD. GUEZ DE BALZAC
