Romantic localities
Subtitle: Europe writes place
By: edited by Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe
Series: Enlightenment World -- 19
Publisher: Pickering & Chatto
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9781848930025; 9781848930032
Subjects: European literature; Landscapes in literature; Landschaft <Motiv>; History and criticism; Romantik; Romanticism
Description: Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes - both geographical and metaphorical - and literatures. This focus on how writers explore region and place ties in with current scholarly interest with 'transnational' perspectives. The essays featured in this collection come from scholars from around the world and discuss poetry, fiction, travel narratives, and historical and scientific texts. The contributors examine versions of 'home' and 'abroad', as well as issues of 'now' and 'the past'. The concentration on locality is underpinned by explorations of mobility, mutability, sincerity and the real.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe; title: 'How bursts the landscape on my sight!' :; title: pedestrian excursions into the Romantic landscape  -- Felicitas Menhard; title: At the intersection of artifice and reality  -- Jacqueline Labbe; title: Sublime landscapes and ancient traditions :; title: Eighteenth-century literary tourism in Scotland  -- Kristin Ott; title: 'Plum-pudding stone' and the Romantic Sublime :; title: the landscape and geology of the Trossach in The Statistical Account of Scotland (1791-9)  -- Tom Furniss; title: Readers of Romantic locality :; title: tourists, Loch Katerine and The Lady of the Lake  -- Nicola J. Watson; title: Paradox Inn :; title: home and passing through at Grasmere  -- Polly Atkin; title: 'O all pervading album!' :; title: place and displacement in Romantic albums and album poetry  -- Samantha Matthews; title: Into the woods :; title: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic imagination  -- Stefanie Fricke; title: 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)  -- Angela Wright; title: Henry Crabb Robinson's initiation into the 'Mysteries of the New School' :; title: a Romantic journey  -- James Vigus; title: Italy as a Romantic location in the poetry of the Original English Della Cruscans  -- Rolf Lessenich; title: The location of vacancy :; title: Pompeii and the Panorama  -- Sophie Thomas; title: Italy visited and revisited :; title: Wordworth's 'Magnificent Debt'  -- J. Douglas Kneale; title: Hollow skies, hupaithric temples and Pythagoreans :; title: Shelly's dim Crotonian truths  -- Rosa Karl; title: 'An imaginary line drawn through waste and wilderness' :; title: Scott's The Talisman  -- Silvia Mergenthal; title: Exploded convictions, perished certainties :; title: the transformational experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster's A Voyage Round the World -- Christoph Bode.