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

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

Rigby, Kate

Hardcover

Series: Under the Sign of Nature

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0813922747
ISBN13: 9780813922744
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Dec 14 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.58 Depth: 9.54
Language: English

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, Schiller, and Alexander von Humboldt. Following the pioneering work of Jonathan Bate and Karl Kroeber, she probes romantic understandings of nature, the source of the sacred, the power of place, and the role of literature, with a view to uncovering the tensions and ambivalences within the European romantic tradition. The result is a synthetic and philosophically inflected study that looks at the literary and ecological significance of place within a broad cultural context.

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