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Busch, Justin E. A.: The Utopian Vision of H. G. Wells, 2009 by John S. Partington is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Busch, Justin E. A.: The Utopian Vision of H. G. Wells, 2009 about?
Though Wilson offers excellent readings of individual texts (his account of Thoreau's "scrying" of icy landscapes in Walden strikes me as being on a par with the best in recent ecocriticism), the almost complete lack of historical and cultural contextualization clearly impairs the analytical strength of this otherwise groundbreaking study of the Romantic obsession with ice. As it stands, much of what Wilson has to say about Coleridge's and Poe's shared interest in the aesthetic exploration of the South Pole amounts to nothing more than an interesting footnote in transatlantic literary history. One certainly wonders whether their respective versions of a "polar sublime"as well as the spiritual history of ice at largemay not have taken on a quite different meaning if read in conjunction with the well-documented, continuing struggle of both writers to carve out a niche for artistic imagination within an overwhelmingly rationalist modern environment.
Who reads Busch, Justin E. A.: The Utopian Vision of H. G. Wells, 2009?
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- Author
- John S. Partington
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)