Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite / Marjorie Hop...
Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite / Marjorie Hop...
Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite / Marjorie Hope Nicolson ; with a foreword by William Cronon.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N821.0093214/1
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English
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xix, 403 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Foreword / William Cronon -- 1. The Literary Heritage -- 2. The Theological Dilemma -- 3. New Philosophy -- 4. The Geological Dilemma -- 5. A Sacred Theory of the Earth -- 6. The Burnet Controversy -- 7. The Aesthetics of the Infinite -- 8. A New Descriptive Poetry.
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Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1997.
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Washington (State)
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
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 of 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 t...
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Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite / Marjorie Hope Nicolson ; with a foreword by William Cronon.
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Weyerhaeuser environmental classics.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N821.0093214/1
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0295975776(pbk.) :
9780295975771 (alk. paper)
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821.00932143
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