Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology
ISBN: 9780801458750
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters



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.


Noah Heringman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of Romantic Science: The Literary Forms of Natural History.

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