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1 online resource |
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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 |
| Summary |
"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 sublime' in Western and European thought, and on the praxis of literary and historical exegesis, the book generates new cultural histories of the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers, including: the Alps; the Italian volcanoes, Vesuvius and Etna; the Arctic and the Antarctic; the deserts of central and southern Africa; and the universe being revealed by the new astronomy |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from publisher supplied information (title not viewed) |
| Subject |
Sublime, The, in literature.
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Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English -- c 1700 to c 1800 -- c 1800 to c 1900.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English -- c 1700 to c 1800 -- c 1800 to c 1900.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature
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Das Erhabene
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Literatur
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Natur Motiv
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Europa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781137332189 |
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1137332182 |
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