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Coleridge and the geometric idiom : walking with Euclid
- Title
- Coleridge and the geometric idiom : walking with Euclid / Ann C. Colley, SUNY Buffalo State College.
- Author
- Colley, Ann C.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- xii, 193 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Literary criticism
- Literary criticism.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Coleridge walks: the measure of the landscape -- 2. Lines of motion -- 3. A geometric frame of mind -- 4. Arts poetica -- 5. Youth and age: Coleridge and the shifting paradigm of geometric thought -- Afterword: an organic geometry.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-3642
- ISBN
- 9781009271752
- 100927175X
- 9781009271745
- 1009271741
- 9781009271769 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781009271738 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022035410
- OCLC
- 1341210493
- Author
- Colley, Ann C., author.
- Title
- Coleridge and the geometric idiom : walking with Euclid / Ann C. Colley, SUNY Buffalo State College.
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 139.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-189) and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Colley, Ann C. Coleridge and the geometric idiom Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023 9781009271769 (DLC) 2022035411
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-3642