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The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
Eric G. Wilson
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Description for The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
Paperback. The Spiritual History of Ice explores the ecology of ice in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected context of the Romantic age but also the esoteric history and psychology of frozen phenomena. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230619715
SKU
V9780230619715
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About Eric G. Wilson
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.
Reviews for The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
"Like crystalline forms, this book is weird and wondrous . . .Wilson presents his wide-ranging and energetic research in gripping, narrative fashion." - Gothic Studies "Wilson's account is intelligent and his style eloquent. . . . . [He] is particularly insightful on optics . . .[and] his reading of literary texts is sensitive throughout." - European Romantic ... Read more