Spiritual history of ice, the: romanticism, science and the imagination
Auteur :
Wilson, E.
Éditeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN :
9780230619715
Date de publication :
17 nov. 2009
Dimensions :
21,6 x 14,0 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.