The Spiritual History of Ice

Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

By:

E. Wilson

Format:

Paperback / softback

Show Hide Adult Content

$173.00

Available from supplier

Usually ships in 3-4 weeks

0 in Trolley

Price Match

Wrap this item as a gift ($5.90) - add a free gift card on the next page

Free Delivery with Primate

Join Now

Free 14 day free trial, cancel anytime.

Buy Now, Pay Later with:

4 payments of $43.25 with Afterpay Learn more

6 weekly interest-free payments of $28.83 with Laybuy Learn more

Availability

Delivering to:

Estimated arrival:

Around 20 Jun - 2 Jul using International Courier

Description

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.

Author Biography:

ERIC WILSON is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, where he teaches courses in British and American Romanticism. He is author of Romantic Turbulence and Emerson's Sublime Science.

Release date NZ

November 17th, 2009

Author

E. Wilson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

XIV, 278 p.

Pages

278

Dimensions

140x216x18

ISBN-13

9780230619715

Product ID

3419087

Customer reviews

Nobody has reviewed this product yet. You could be the first!

Write a Review

Marketplace listings

There are no Marketplace listings available for this product currently.
Already own it? Create a free listing and pay just 9% commission when it sells!

Sell Yours Here