| #3753966 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2010-02-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x1.00 x6.00l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 326 pages | ||1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| A major study|By Richard C. Sha|This book is one of the 10 most important recent studies of Romanticism. Although the previous reviewer chides it for its academic nature, it is an academic book. It is also a distinguished academic book, beautifully combining theoretical acumen, lovely close readings, and well-researched and new geological contexts for Romantic poetry. Roc|||"A fascinating study of the rocks of Romanticism, the geology of German and British thinking that flowed out from the field work of early hammer-toting scientists into the libraries, the natural history museums, and the scientific 'cabinets' of Europe. . . .
Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice . . . to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization?
Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamenta...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology | Noah Heringman. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
