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Beschreibung
At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being. The Spiritual History of Ice explores this ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.
Romanticism, Science and the Imagination
Details
| Verlag | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Ersterscheinung | November 2009 |
| Maße | 21.6 cm x 14 cm |
| Gewicht | 376 Gramm |
| Format | Softcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780230619715 |
| Auflage | 2003 |
| Seiten | 278 |
Schlagwörter
18. Jahrhundert (ca. 1700 bis ca. 1799), Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Europa, European Literature, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Literaturwissenschaft - allgemein, Literaturwissenschaft: 1600 bis 1800, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics
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