1st Edition

Romantic Localities Europe Writes Place

Edited By Christoph Bode, Jacqueline Labbe Copyright 2010
    336 Pages
    by Routledge

    336 Pages
    by Routledge

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

    Acknowledgements, Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction, 1 ‘How Bursts the Landscape on my Sight!’: Pedestrian Excursions into the Romantic Landscape , 2 At the Intersection of Artifice and Reality, 3 Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Eighteenth-Century Literary Tourism in Scotland, 4 ‘Plumb-Pudding Stone’ and the Romantic Sublime: The Landscape and Geology of the Trossachs in The Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–9), 5 Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and Th e Lady of the Lake, 6 Paradox Inn: Home and Passing Th rough at Grasmere, 7 ‘O all pervading Album!’: Place and Displacement in Romantic Albums and Album Poetry, 8 Into the Woods: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic Imagination, 9 Inspiration, Toleration and Relocation in Ann Radcliff e’s A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany (1795), 10 Henry Crabb Robinson’s Initiation into the ‘Mysteries of the New School’: A Romantic Journey, 11 Italy as a Romantic Location in the Poetry of the Original English Della Cruscans, 12 The Location of Vacancy: Pompeii and the Panorama, 13 Italy Visited and Revisited: Wordsworth’s ‘Magnificent Debt’, 14 Hollow Skies, Hupaithric Temples and Pythagoreans: Shelley’s Dim Crotonian Truths, 15 ‘An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness’: Scott’s The Talisman, 16 Exploded Convictions, Perished Certainties: The Transformational Experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster’s A Voyage Round the World, Notes, Works Cited, Index

    Biography

    Christoph Bode, Jacqueline Labbe