Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory - The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite

To English poets and writers of the seventeenth century, as to their predecessors, mountains were ugly protuberances which disfigured nature and threatened the symmetry of earth; they were symbols God's wrath. Yet, less than two centuries later the romantic poets sang in praise of mountain splendor, of glorious heights that stirred their souls to divine ecstasy. In this very readable and fascinating study, Marjorie Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by William Cronon

Preface

Introduction

The Literary Heritage

The Tehological Dilemma

New Philosophy

The Geological Dilemma

A Sacred Theory of the Earth

The Burnet Controversy

The Aesthetics of the Infinite

A New Descriptive Poetry

Epilogue

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Marjorie Hope Nicolson. Foreword by William Cronon

Zusammenfassung

Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marjorie H. Nicholson, Marjorie Hope Nicolson
• Verlag: University Of Washington Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.02.1997
• EAN: 9780295975771
• ISBN: 978-0-295-97577-1
• Seiten: 432
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 216 mm x 27 mm
• Gewicht: 585 g
• Serien: Weyerhaeuser Environmental Cla; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics; Weyerhaeuser Environmental Cla
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Landwirtschaft, Gartenbau; Forstwirtschaft, Fischerei, Ernährung