Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology.
Heringman, Noah.
Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (326 pages)
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.
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.
9780801458750
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.
Electronic books.
PR575.G46 -- H47 2004eb
821/.70936
Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (326 pages)
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.
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.
9780801458750
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.
Electronic books.
PR575.G46 -- H47 2004eb
821/.70936