Romantic Weather: The Climates of Coleridge and Baudelaire

Reed, Arden

ISBN 10: 0874512778 / ISBN 13: 9780874512779

Published by Brown University Press, Hanover, NH, 1983

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Clean, unread copy in Fine - Near New condition. No marking or writing in the book - text is completely clean, and the book appears unread. Covers are clean and show almost no shelf wear. Binding is firm. Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition, shows only very slight shelf wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Romantic Weather: The Climates of Coleridge and Baudelaire
• Publisher: Brown University Press, Hanover, NH
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0874512778
• ISBN 13: 9780874512779
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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Synopsis

Romantic Weather shows the tradition of learned meteorology to be an influential and enduring topic from the time of Aristotle. Assistant Professor of English, Arden Reed concentrates on Coleridge and Baudelaire as exemplary figures who stand at the chronological extremes of European romanticism. In their writing, the weather is more than a local motif or them: by means of this imagery they express various conceptions of imagination, poetics, epistemology, and language. He integrates close readings of scholars like Earl Wasserman, the thematic approach of the 'Geneva Critics,' and the deconstructive strategies of Jacques Derrida, which offer access to the vapors that characterize, Reed argues, the flux and reflux of the Romantic imagination.