Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic VisionAshgate, 2005 - 259 pàgines Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of Post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an important travel writer in his own right. This book is informed by original research on a wide range of period travel writings, including Mary Shelley and Shelley's neglected collaboration, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), in which 'Mont Blanc' first appeared. Fully responsive to the culture of travel, Shelley's travel prose and poetry form fascinating conversations with major Romantic travellers like Byron, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth, as well as lesser-known but widely read travel writers of the day, including Morris Birkbeck, Charlotte Eaton, and John Chetwode Eustace. In this provocative study, Benjamin Colbert demonstrates how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular culture. Shelley's travel prose and 'visionary' poetry explore motives of perception underlying travel discourse and posit an authentic 'aesthetic vision' that reconfigures social, historical, and political meanings of 'sights' from the perspective of an ideal tourist-observer. Shelley's Eye offers a new perspective on Shelley's intellectual history. It is also a timely and important contribution to recent interdisciplinary scholarship that aims to re-evaluate Romantic idealism in the context of physical, experiential, or material cultural practices. |
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Pàgina 188
... beauty ' ( L , 2 : 61 ) . The account of these day trips ends with a moonlight return that also emphasises those effects of light and atmosphere that Eustace , too , in his dissertation on scenery , had noted as being characteristics of ...
... beauty ' ( L , 2 : 61 ) . The account of these day trips ends with a moonlight return that also emphasises those effects of light and atmosphere that Eustace , too , in his dissertation on scenery , had noted as being characteristics of ...
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... beauty , and to want this is to want the essence of the creative power of mind . What is terror without a contrast with & connection with loveliness ? How well Dante understood this secret , Dante with whom this artist has been so ...
... beauty , and to want this is to want the essence of the creative power of mind . What is terror without a contrast with & connection with loveliness ? How well Dante understood this secret , Dante with whom this artist has been so ...
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... beauty ' clothed with the ' rays which are reality ' , though Shelley's confusing antecedents characteristically emphasise the interchange between his ideal of beauty and the object world , itself brought before the eye by the ...
... beauty ' clothed with the ' rays which are reality ' , though Shelley's confusing antecedents characteristically emphasise the interchange between his ideal of beauty and the object world , itself brought before the eye by the ...
Continguts
PostNapoleonic Travellers Europe | 11 |
Rome | 24 |
Dislocated Vision in Alastor | 44 |
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Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision Benjamin Colbert Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
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aesthetic Alastor ancient appears argues beauty becomes begins British Byron calls Cambridge Childe classical Classical Tour contrast criticism cultural describes discourse effect empire English Europe European Eustace Eustace's Excursion experience expression feelings forms France French give Grand Greece Greek History HSWT human idea ideal imagination important impressions interest Italian Italy John journal landscape language less letter light lines London manners Mary Shelley meaning mind Mont Blanc moral mountains Narrator Narrator's nature notes objects observation opened painting particularly past Peacock picturesque poem Poet poetry political position present Prometheus Prose published reading reference reflections relation represents response Review revolutionary Roman Rome Rousseau ruins scene seems sense Shelley Shelley's social space spirit sublime suggests taste things thought Tour tourist travel writing turns values Venice vision Wollstonecraft Wordsworth Young
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