Journal article
Watershed Communities: River Systems in Coleridge and Geddes
Studies in Romanticism, Vol.62(1), pp.125-153
2023
DOI: 10.1353/srm.2023.0009
Abstract
This article overlays Coleridge's more diagrammatic accounts of river systems with the "Valley Section" created in multiple iterations by the Scottish biologist, sociologist, and urban planner Patrick Geddes (1854–1932). With particular attention to Coleridge's prospectus for "The Brook," his "Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement" (1797), and On the Constitution of Church and State (1829), and to Geddes's co-authored The Coming Polity (1917), it reads both writers' diagrams of coastal watersheds as anticipating current initiatives in bioregionalism and public environmental humanities.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Watershed Communities: River Systems in Coleridge and Geddes
- Creators
- Eric Gidal - University of Iowa, English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Studies in Romanticism, Vol.62(1), pp.125-153
- DOI
- 10.1353/srm.2023.0009
- ISSN
- 0039-3762
- eISSN
- 2330-118X
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2023
- Academic Unit
- English; International Programs
- Record Identifier
- 9984397317502771
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