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Autore |
Heringman Noah |
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Titolo |
Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology / / Noah Heringman |
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Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-8014-7626-7 |
0-8014-5875-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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