Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism

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Although the British romantic poets -- notably, Blake, Wordsworth, and Byron -- have been the subjects of previous ecocriticalexaminations, Kate Rigby's Topographies of the Sacred is the first book to compareEnglish and German literary models of romanticism. Rigby treats not only canonicalBritish romantics but an array 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 Bateand Karl Kroeber, she probes romantic understandings of nature, the source of thesacred, the power of place, and the role of literature, with a view to uncoveringthe tensions and ambivalences within the European romantic tradition. The result isa synthetic and philosophically inflected study that looks at the literary andecological significance of place within a broad cultural context.