Mountain gloom and mountain glory : the development of the aesthetics of the infinite / Marjorie Hope Nicolson ; with a foreword by William Cronon

Date : 1997

Type : Livre / Book

Langue / Language : anglais / English

ISBN : 0-295-97577-6

ISBN : 978-0-295-97577-1

EAN : 9780295975771

Esthétique -- Grande-Bretagne

Poésie anglaise -- Thèmes, motifs

Montagnes -- Dans la littérature

Infini -- Dans la littérature

Nature -- Dans la littérature

Classification Dewey : 821.009/32143

Nicolson, Marjorie Hope (1894-1981) (Auteur / author)

Cronon, William (1954-....) (Préfacier, etc. / author of introd)

Collection : Weyerhaeuser Environmental Classics / editor William Cronon / Seattle (Wash.) : University of Washington Press

Résumé / Abstract : [...] M. Hope Nicolson considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the seventeenth century that caused the shift from mountain gloom to mountain glory. She examines various writers from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries and traces both the causes and the process of this drastic change in perception.