E. Wilson: The Spiritual History of Ice

Cover: 9780230619715 | The Spiritual History of Ice | E. Wilson | Taschenbuch | xiv | 2009

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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.

Über den Autor

ERIC WILSON is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, where he teaches courses in British and American Romanticism. He is author of Romantic Turbulence and Emerson's Sublime Science.

Zusammenfassung

A fascinating look at the science and magic of ice glaciers, the poles and crystals, highlighting their central place in the Romantic imagination

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2009
Genre:	Allgemeine Lexika , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	xiv 278 S.
ISBN-13:	9780230619715
ISBN-10:	0230619711
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wilson, E.
Hersteller:	Palgrave Macmillan Palgrave Macmillan US
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	216 x 140 x 17 mm
Von/Mit:	E. Wilson
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.11.2009
Gewicht:	0,376 kg