Although the British romantic poets -- notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron -- have been the subjects of previous ecocriticalexaminations, Kate Rigby''s "Topographies of theSacred" is the first book to compare English and German literarymodels of romanticism. Rigby treats not only canonical British romantics but anarray of major figures in Continental literature, philosophy, and natural history, including Rousseau, Herder, Goethe, Schelling, Schiller, and Alexander von Humboldt.Following the pioneering work of Jonathan Bate and Karl Kroeber, she probes romanticunderstandings of nature, the source of the sacred, the power of place, and the roleof literature, with a view to uncovering the tensions and ambivalences within theEuropean romantic tradition. The result is a synthetic and philosophically inflectedstudy that looks at the literary and ecological significance of place within a broadcultural context. |
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