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The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination
The Spiritual History of Ice Romanticism Science and the Imagination
Author: Eric G. Wilson
At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers. Aware of this new scientific information, Romantic figures in England and America--including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau--cha...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780230619715
ISBN-10: 0230619711
Publication Date: 10/15/2009
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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