The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination
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Book details
- Author
- E. Wilson
- Publisher
- MACMILLAN
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Criticism & Theory
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780230619715
- ISBN-10
- 0230619711
- Vendor: Mia Karts
The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination
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ISBN: 0230619711
Author: Wilson, E.
Condition: New
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.
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