Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

by Kate Rigby

Book Overview

Although the British romantic poets--notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron--have been the subjects of previous ecocritical examinations, Kate Rigby's Topographies of the Sacred is the first book to compare English and German literary models of romanticism. Rigby treats not only canonical British romantics but an array of major figures in Continental literature, philosophy, and natural history, including Rousseau, Herder, Goethe, Schelling,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922755
• ISBN13: 9780813922751
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"