When Coleridge described the landscapes he passed through while
scrambling among the fells, mountains, and valleys of Britain, he
did something unprecedented in Romantic writing: to capture what
emerged before his eyes, he enlisted a geometric idiom. Immersed in
a culture still beholden to Euclid's Elements and schooled by those
who subscribed to its principles, he valued geometry both for its
pragmatic function and for its role as a conduit to abstract
thought. Indeed, his geometric training would often structure his
observations on religion, aesthetics, politics, and philosophy. For
Coleridge, however, this perspective never competed with his
sensitivity to the organic nature of his surroundings but, rather,
intermingled with it. Situating Coleridge's remarkable ways of
seeing within the history and teaching of mathematics and alongside
the eighteenth century's budding interest in non-Euclidean
geometry, Ann Colley illuminates the richness of the culture of
walking and the surprising potential of landscape writing.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Release date: |
March 2023 |
| Authors: |
Ann C. Colley
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| Dimensions: |
236 x 157 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
205 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-00-927175-2 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-00-927175-X |
| Barcode: |
9781009271752 |
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