| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 193 pages) : illustrations |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139 |
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Frontispiece -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Coleridge Walks: The Measure of the Landscape -- Part One: Walking -- A Culture of Walking -- Coleridge Walks -- Part Two: ''every man [is] his own path-maker'' -- Part Three: A Landscape in Motion -- Extended Motion -- Part Four: Feet and the Measure of the Landscape -- A Physical Presence -- The Pace and Tread of His Feet -- Coleridge the Surveyor -- Coleridge's Boots -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 2 Lines of Motion -- ''The endless endless lines of motion'' -- Line and the Translation of George Beaumont's Landscapes -- The Context -- A Geometric Footing -- Chapter 3 A Geometric Frame of Mind -- Geometridae -- Part One: A Euclidean Culture -- Christ's Hospital School (1782-1791) -- The University of Cambridge -- Part Two: Quod erat demonstrandum -- Part Three: A Temper of Mind -- Attention, Abstraction, and Intuition -- Part Four: Entangled Moments -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Ars Poetica -- The Tread and Feel of His Feet: The Peripatetic Rhythms of His Verse -- The Lineal |
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A Geometric Frame of Mind -- The Brown Linnets, the Serpent, the Spider, the Flies, the Snake, and the Rook -- Chapter 5 Youth and Age: Coleridge and the Shifting Paradigm of Geometric Thought -- Part One: Youth and Age -- Part Two: A Sustaining Paradigm -- Part Three: The Euclid Debate -- Euclid and His Modern Rivals -- Part Four: Coleridge and the Alternate Paradigms -- Coleridge and the Geometry of Visibles -- Coleridge and the Curvature of Space -- Conclusion: A Wild Geometry -- Afterword: An Organic Geometry -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2023) |
| Subject |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834 fast |
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Landscapes in literature.
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Geometry in literature.
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Mathematics and literature.
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Geometry in literature
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Landscapes in literature
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Mathematics and literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022035411 |
| ISBN |
9781009271769 |
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1009271768 |
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9781009271738 |
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1009271733 |
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