Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology / Noah Heringman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heringman, Noah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--18th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Geology in literature.

Geology--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Geology.

Geology--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Aesthetics, British--19th century.

Aesthetics, British.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Landscapes in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-296) and index.

ISBN:

0-8014-7626-7

0-8014-5875-7

OCLC:

726824333