Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology
This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xix, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801441271, 0801441277
53324886
Introduction: Aesthetic Materialism and the Culture of Landscape
A Genealogy of the "Huge Stone" in Wordsworth's "Resolution and Independence"
Geological Otherness; or, Rude Rocks and the Aesthetics of Formlessness
Blake, Geology, and Primordial Substance
Interchapter. Literary Landscapes and Mineral Resources
The Rock Record, Mineral Wealth, and the Substance of History
Aesthetic Objects and Cultural Practices in Erasmus Darwin's Geology
Wonders of the Peak
Conclusion: Aesthetic Geology and Critical Discourse
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