Wordsworth and the poetics of air : atmospheric Romanticism in a time of climate change / Thomas H....
Wordsworth and the poetics of air : atmospheric Romanticism in a time of climate change / Thomas H....
Wordsworth and the poetics of air : atmospheric Romanticism in a time of climate change / Thomas H. Ford.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2018/5303
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English
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x, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: An ecophilology of atmosphere -- Atmospheric romanticism -- Atmospheric mediation -- Romantic meteorology -- Atmospheric aesthetics -- In the breathing chamber: "lines written a few miles above" -- Conclusion: Romantic poetry after climate change.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2018.
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Before the ideas we now define as Romanticism took hold the word 'atmosphere' meant only the physical stuff of air; afterwards, it could mean almost anything, from a historical mood or spirit to the character or style of an artwork. Thomas H. Ford traces this shift of meaning, which he sees as first occurring in the poetry of William Wordsworth. Gr...
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Wordsworth and the poetics of air : atmospheric Romanticism in a time of climate change / Thomas H. Ford.
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 121
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2018/5303
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74VKV8v3EWWd
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1108424953 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9781108424950 hardcover ; alkaline paper
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821.7
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991024187781302626
