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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811124403321

Autore

Heringman Noah

Titolo

Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology / / Noah Heringman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, 2004

ISBN

0-8014-7626-7

0-8014-5875-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

821/.70936

Soggetti

English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism

English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism

Geology in literature

Geology - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Geology - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Aesthetics, British - 19th century

Romanticism - Great Britain

Sublime, The, in literature

Landscapes in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Bibliographical Note -- Introduction: Aesthetic Materialism and the Culture of Landscape -- A Genealogy of the "Huge Stone" in Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence" -- Geological Otherness -- or, Rude Rocks and the Aesthetics of Formlessness -- Blake, Geology, and Primordial Substance -- Interchapter: Literary Landscapes and Mineral Resources -- The Rock Record, Mineral WealthI and the Substance of History -- Aesthetic Objects and Cultural Practices in Erasmus Darwin's Geology -- Wonders of the Peak -- Conclusion: Aesthetic Geology and Critical Discourse -- Works Yited -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.