氷の精神史：ロマン主義、科学と想像力 The Spiritual History of Ice : Romanticism, Science, and the Imagination

Wilson, Eric G.

Palgrave Macmillan（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 278 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780230619715
• DDC分類 809

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover is out of print. Explores ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.

Full Description

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 celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being. The Spiritual History of Ice explores this ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.

Contents

Prologue: Frozen Apocolypse Introduction: The Spirit of Ice Crystals Glaciers The Poles Conclusion: Genesis and Melting