Romantic Localities:
Europe Writes Place
Editors: Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe
The Enlightenment World
978 1 84893 002 5: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 003 2
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 in ‘transnational’ perspectives.
The essays featured in this collection are by 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.
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Readership
Romanticism, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature
Contents
Introduction – Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe
1 'How bursts the landscape on my sight!': Pedestrian Excursions into the Romantic Landscape – Felicitas Menhard
2 At the Intersection of Artifice and Reality – Jacqueline Labbe
3 Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Eighteenth-Century Literary Tourism in Scotland – Kristin Ott
4 'Plumb-Pudding Stone' and the Romantic Sublime: The Landscape and Geology of the Trossachs in The Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–9) – Tom Furniss
5 Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and The Lady of the Lake – Nicola J Watson
6 Paradox Inn: Home and Passing Through at Grasmere – Polly Atkin
7 'O all pervading Album!': Place and Displacement in Romantic Albums and Album Poetry – Samantha Matthews
8 Into the Woods: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic Imagination – Stefanie Fricke
9 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
10 Henry Crabb Robinson’s Initiation into the 'Mysteries of the New School': A Romantic Journey – James Vigus
11 Italy as a Romantic Location in the Poetry of the Original English Della Cruscans – Rolf Lessenich
12 The Location of Vacancy: Pompeii and the Panorama – Sophie Thomas
13 Italy Visited and Revisited: Wordsworth’s 'Magnificent Debt' – J Douglas Kneale
14 Hollow Skies, Hupaithric Temples and Pythgoreans: Shelley’s Dim Crotonian Truths – Rosa Karl
15 'An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness': Scott’s The Talisman – Silvia Mergenthal
16 Exploded Convictions, Perished Certainties: The Transformational Experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster’s A Voyage Round the World – Christoph Bode
Reviews
'an intriguing volume, full of fascinating insights into a hugely diverse number of places, with an important introductory essay that articulates the complexities of location as a concept that should be theorized as something distinct from travel writing.'
– Essaka Joshua, Coleridge Bulletin
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