The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

by Eric G. Wilson and Eric Wilson

Book Overview

At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers. Aware of this new scientific information, Romantic figures in England and America--including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau--challenged traditional representations of ice as waste and celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as revelations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230619711
• ISBN13: 9780230619715
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"