The spiritual history of ice : romanticism, science, and the imagination
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The spiritual history of ice : romanticism, science, and the imagination
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
At the end of the 18th 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. This text explores this ecology of frozen shapes in detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.
目次
Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting
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