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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory de Marjorie Hope Nicolson

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

Autor Marjorie Hope Nicolson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 1997
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
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780295975771
ISBN-10: 0295975776
Pagini: 432
Dimensiuni: 154 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:Revised edition
Editura: University of Washington Press

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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 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.

Cuprins

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