TY - BOOK AU - Heringman,Noah TI - Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology SN - 9780801458750 AV - PR575.G46 -- H47 2004eb U1 - 821/.70936 PY - 2004/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism KW - English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism KW - Geology in literature KW - Geology -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century KW - Geology -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century KW - Aesthetics, British -- 19th century KW - Romanticism -- Great Britain KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138067 ER -