Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology / / Noah Heringman

• Autore: Heringman Noah
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca, N.Y., : Cornell University Press, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Disciplina: 821/.70936
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology
• ISBN: 0-8014-7626-7; 0-8014-5875-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910811124403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II