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100 1 $aWilson, Eric,$d1967-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n98052948
245 14 $aThe spiritual history of ice :$bromanticism, science, and the imagination /$cEric G. Wilson.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2003.
300 $aviii, 278 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [221]-270) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Frozen Apocalypse -- $g1.$tCrystals -- $g2.$tGlaciers -- $g3.$tThe Poles -- $tConclusion: Melting and Genesis.
520 1 $a"At the turn of the nineteenth century, crystallographers, glaciologists, and polar explorers for the first time demonstrated that frozen shapes are not dead but bearers of vital powers.
520 8 $aAware of this new scientific information, Romantic figures in England and America - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional representations of ice as waste and celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as revelations of life as well as models of poetic composition. Eric G.
520 8 $aWilson explores this ecology of ice in detail, revealing not only a neglected context of the Romantic age but also the esoteric history and psychology of frozen phenomena."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101047
650 0 $aIce in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006988
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103188
651 0 $aArctic regions$xIn literature.
651 0 $aPolar regions$xIn literature.
651 0 $aAntarctica$xIn literature.
650 0 $aCrystals in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004499
650 0 $aGlaciers in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002006989
650 0 $aRomanticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115078
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol031/2002032174.html
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