Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, Date: 2004. NEW and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket. Only a little shelfwear to the jacket. NO chips, tears, creases or fading. Bright and shiny. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. Illustrations. Footnotes. Bibliography. Index. Bound in the original biege cloth. From the dust jacket: " Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a 'voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe'? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or 'stonifying,' in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770 -1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics - the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor 'improvement' - provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages. ROMANTIC ROCKS, AESTHETIC GEOLOGY reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and ...

Cornell University Pres, Date: 2004. 1st edition. Hard covers, dust jacket. Fine/Fine . Inscribed by the author. 2004. Cornell University Pres ISBN 0801441277 9780801441271 [GB]

Cornell University Press, Date: 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780801441271 2004. Cornell University Press ISBN 0801441277 9780801441271 [GB]

United States: Cornell University Press, Date: 2004. Hard covers in clean, tidy condition with a very good dust jacket, 304pp. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 2004. Cornell University Press ISBN 0801441277 9780801441271 [GB]

ISBN10: 0801441277, ISBN13: 9780801441271, [publisher: Cornell University Press, United States] Hardcover Hard covers in clean, tidy condition with a very good dust jacket, 304pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Cornell University Press 2004 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN: 0801441277.

ISBN10: 0801441277, ISBN13: 9780801441271, [publisher: CORNELL UNIV PR] Hardcover This book reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of geology, rocks, and landforms.
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