Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (UNDER THE SIGN OF NATURE) Paperback – Import, 30 Nov 2004

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Review Kate Rigby is working in an increasingly important area of ecocritical and romantic studies, and she brings to her task an impressive combination of erudition and scholarship, as well as a graceful prose style, Topographies of the Sacred is particularly valuable because of the comparative element it brings to this work. Rigby's analysis of literary 'nature' will occasion discussion, debate, and ongoing research. - Ashton Nichols, Dickinson College, author of The Poetics of Epiphany and The Revolutionary ""I About the Author Kate Rigby, Senior Lecturer in German Studies and Comparative Literature at Monash University, Australia, is the author of Transgressions of the Feminine: Tragedy, Enlightenment, and the Figure of Woman in Classical German Drama.