{"product_id":"9780230619715","title":"The Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination","description":"\u003ch1\u003eThe Spiritual History of Ice: Romanticism, Science and the Imagination\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eWilson, E.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the end of the eighteenth century, scientists for the first time demonstrated what medieval and renaissance alchemists had long suspected; ice is not lifeless but vital, a crystalline revelation of vigorous powers. Studied in esoteric and exoterical representations of frozen phenomena, several Romantic figures - including Coleridge and Poe, Percy and Mary Shelley, Emerson and Thoreau - challenged traditional notions of ice as waste and instead celebrated crystals, glaciers, and the poles as special disclosures of a holistic principle of being. The Spiritual History of Ice explores this ecology of frozen shapes in fascinating detail, revealing not only a neglected current of the Romantic age but also a secret history and psychology of ice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2009-11-17\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9780230619715\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9781403981806\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 278\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan US","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47679313477772,"sku":"9780230619715","price":58.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9780230619715.jpg?v=1776571093","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780230619715","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}