The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination

by Eric G. Wilson and Eric Wilson

Book Overview

At the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230619711
• ISBN13: 9780230619715
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"