Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology

by Noah Heringman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801441277
• ISBN13: 9780801441271
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher