Name: Romantic Localities:Europe Writes Place
ISBN: 9781315656182

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ABSTRACT

Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

‘How Bursts the Landscape on my Sight!': Pedestrian Excursions into the Romantic Landscape

chapter 2|14 pages

At the Intersection of Artifice and Reality

chapter 3|12 pages

Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Eighteenth-Century Literary Tourism in Scotland

chapter 4|15 pages

‘Plumb-Pudding Stone' and the Romantic Sublime: the Landscape and Geology of the Trossachs in the Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–9)

chapter 5|13 pages

Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and the Lady of the Lake

chapter 6|18 pages

Paradox Inn: Home and Passing through at Grasmere

chapter 7|18 pages

‘O all Pervading Album!': Place and Displacement in Romantic Albums and Album Poetry

chapter 8|14 pages

Into the Woods: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic Imagination

chapter 9|13 pages

Inspiration, Toleration and Relocation in Ann Radcliffe's a Journey made in the Summer of 1794, through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795)

chapter 10|12 pages

Henry Crabb Robinson's Initiation into the ‘Mysteries of the New School': a Romantic Journey

chapter 11|11 pages

Italy as a Romantic Location in the Poetry of the Original English Della Cruscan Poets

chapter 12|16 pages

The Location of Vacancy: Pompeii and the Panorama

chapter 13|12 pages

Italy Visited and Revisited: Wordsworth's ‘Magnificent Debt'

chapter 14|11 pages

Hollow Skies, Hupaithric Temples and Pythagoreans: Shelley's Dim Crotonian Truths

chapter 15|11 pages

‘An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness': Scott's the Talisman

chapter 16|16 pages

Exploded Convictions, Perished Certainties: the Transformational Experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster's a Voyage Round the World

Romantic Localities