Road to Egdon Heath : The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature.
Title:
Road to Egdon Heath : The Aesthetics of the Great in Nature.
Author:
Bevis, Richard.
ISBN:
9780773567535
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (434 pages)
Series:
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas ; v.26
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Tempe and Thule -- I: UNDERPINNINGS -- 1 The Great as Aesthetic Category -- 2 Knowing the Planet: Early Travel and Exploration -- 3 Coming to Terms: Philosophy, Religion, and Science -- II: RECOGNIZING GREATNESS: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- 4 The Great and Sublime: British Aesthetics -- 5 Wild Writing: The Great in Georgian Literature -- 6 Breaking Loose: European Developments to Goethe -- 7 Enlarged Views: English Travel and Exploration -- III: FROM SUBLIMITY TO BARRENNESS: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD -- 8 Mind and Earth: Philosophy and Science -- 9 Poetic Feet: England's Peripatetic Bards -- 10 Landscapes in Prose: Fiction and Travel -- IV: SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY -- 11 "Go and See": Lyell, Geology, and Belief -- 12 "What Is Nature?" Some Influential Views, 1830-70 -- 13 Leaving Blanks: American Novelists and the Great -- 14 The Naked Truth: Desert Travel, 1830-70 -- 15 Mighty Fortresses: The Meanings of Mountains, 1830-70 -- 16 The Arctic Saga: Polar Exploration, 1830-67 -- 17 Desert Souls: The Great and Barren in European Literature, 1830-66 -- 18 On the Beach: Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt -- 19 On the Heath: The 1870s -- EPILOGUE: THE HEATH REVISITED -- Chronology -- Lexicon -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Abstract:
Bevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison's term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin's journals, Lyell's studies in geology, and de Saussure's books on the Alps helped form an outlook on nature that also found frequent literary expression.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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