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. |
Des de l'interior del llibre
Resultats 1 - 3 de 37.
Pàgina 77
... light has been steadily dimming ) where is found a central well that sends the eye back where it came from . The well , Dark , gleaming , and of most translucent wave , Images all the woven boughs above , And each depending leaf , and ...
... light has been steadily dimming ) where is found a central well that sends the eye back where it came from . The well , Dark , gleaming , and of most translucent wave , Images all the woven boughs above , And each depending leaf , and ...
Pàgina 157
... light , though hardly the unquenchable lamp of poesy . Shelley's more particular source for the simile is the Short Residence , in which Wollstonecraft describes how Norwegian farmers start forest fires by burning stubble : ' the soil ...
... light , though hardly the unquenchable lamp of poesy . Shelley's more particular source for the simile is the Short Residence , in which Wollstonecraft describes how Norwegian farmers start forest fires by burning stubble : ' the soil ...
Pàgina 158
... light as optical presence to light as trope , the eye then turns inward towards ' living things each one ; And my spirit which so long / Darkened this swift stream of song ' ( II . 310-12 ) . Grammatically and thematically , object ...
... light as optical presence to light as trope , the eye then turns inward towards ' living things each one ; And my spirit which so long / Darkened this swift stream of song ' ( II . 310-12 ) . Grammatically and thematically , object ...
Continguts
PostNapoleonic Travellers Europe | 11 |
Rome | 24 |
Dislocated Vision in Alastor | 44 |
Copyright | |
No s’hi han mostrat 7 seccions
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision Benjamin Colbert Previsualització no disponible - 2016 |
Frases i termes més freqüents
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
Referències a aquest llibre
Toward an Aesthetics of Blindness: An Interdisciplinary Response to Synge ... David Feeney Visualització de fragments - 2007 |
Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle Sophie Thomas Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |