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Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes

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Foreword by William CrononPrefaceIntroductionThe Literary HeritageThe Tehological DilemmaNew PhilosophyThe Geological DilemmaA Sacred Theory of the EarthThe Burnet ControversyThe Aesthetics of the InfiniteA New Descriptive PoetryEpilogueIndex

Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory

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A Paperback / softback by Marjorie Hope Nicolson, William Cronon

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    Publisher: University of Washington Press
    Publication Date: 01/02/1997
    ISBN13: 9780295975771, 978-0295975771
    ISBN10: 0295975776
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    Book Synopsis
    Considers the intellectual renaissance at the close of the 17th century that caused the shift in the portrayals and perceptions of mountains in prose and poetry, from ugly protuberances to glorious heights. Examines various writers from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and traces both the causes

    Table of Contents
    Foreword by William CrononPrefaceIntroductionThe Literary HeritageThe Tehological DilemmaNew PhilosophyThe Geological DilemmaA Sacred Theory of the EarthThe Burnet ControversyThe Aesthetics of the InfiniteA New Descriptive PoetryEpilogueIndex

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