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