Darwin, Concepción, and the Geological Sublime

ArgumentDarwin's narrative of the earthquake at Concepción, set within the frameworks of Lyellian uniformitarianism, romantic aesthetics, and the emergence of geology as a popular science, is suggestive of the role of the sublime in geological enquiry and theory in the early nineteenth century. Darwin'sBeaglediary and later notebooks and publications show that the aesthetic of the sublime was both a form of representing geology to a popular audience, and a crucial structure for the observation and recording of the event from the beginning. The awesome spectacle of the earthquake proved in turn the magnitude of the forces at stake in earth history, and helped to make geology an epic conjoining the history of civilization with the history of the earth

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Charles darwin · Civilization · EPIC · Epistemology · Literature · Narrative · Romance · Spectacle · Sublime · Alexander von Humboldt Studies · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · History · History of Science and Natural History · Philosophy · Geology · Paleontology

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