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Coleridge and the Geometric Idiom : Walking with Euclid by Ann C. Colley (2023, Hardcover)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-10100927175X

ISBN-139781009271752

eBay Product ID (ePID)17058367617

Product Key Features

Book TitleColeridge and the Geometric Idiom : Walking with Euclid

Number of Pages205 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2023

TopicEuropean / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

IllustratorYes

GenreLiterary Criticism

AuthorAnn C. Colley

Book SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN2022-035410

Dewey Edition23/eng/20220815

Series Volume NumberSeries Number 139

Dewey Decimal821/.7

Table Of Content1. Coleridge walks: the measure of the landscape; 2. Lines of motion; 3. A geometric frame of mind; 4. Ars Poetica; 5. Youth and age: Coleridge and the shifting paradigm of geometric thought.

SynopsisAdding to Coleridge's already substantial role as a multifaceted intellectual of the Romantic period, Ann Colley reveals how geometry channelled and shaped his thought and his perceptions of nature, illuminating the richness of the culture of walking, and the unexpected potential of landscape writing., 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.

LC Classification NumberPR4487.L3C66 2023