The landscapes of the sublime 1700-1830 : classic ground /

The Landscapes of the Sublime, 1700-1830 is a major new study of the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship on the eighteenth century and Romantic period, on the wider category of 'the sub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Duffy, Cian
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:	Landscapes in literature. English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. English literature > 18th century > History and criticism. Sublime, The, in literature. Nature in literature. Travelers' writings, European > History and criticism. Romanticism > Europe. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: in search of 'classic ground'
1. 'We had hopes that pointed to the clouds': the Alps and the Poetics of Ascent
2. 'A volcano heard afar': Vesuvius, Etna, and the Poetics of Depth
3. 'The region of beauty and delight': Re-imagining the Polar Sublime
4. 'The lone and level sands': Romanticism and the Desert
5. 'My purpose was humbler, but also higher': Thomas De Quincey at the Final Frontier.