E Wilson

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The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination (2003)Paperback - 2003, 17 November 2009

The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination (2003)
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Print Length
278 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
17 Nov 2009
ISBN-10
0230619711
ISBN-13
9780230619715

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.

Product Details

Author:
E Wilson
Book Edition:
2003
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
17 November 2009
Dimensions:
21.34 x 13.97 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
0230619711
ISBN-13:
9780230619715
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
278
Weight:
385.55 gm

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