It takes the average reader 5 hours and 40 minutes to read Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by Noah Heringman
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Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice . . . to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal...
Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology by Noah Heringman is 340 pages long, and a total of 85,000 words.
This makes it 115% the length of the average book. It also has 104% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 44 minutes to read Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology aloud.
Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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