The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination (2003)
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- Synopsis
- 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 neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.
- Copyright:
- 2003
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- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781403981806
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780312292997
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan US, New York
- Date of Addition:
- 02/20/21
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.
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