Road to Egdon Heath: The Aesthetics of the Great in NatureMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 22/05/1999 - 434 páginas 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. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work in the history of ideas, The Road to Egdon Heath traces the growth of an aesthetic sensibility that is now ubiquitous but which would have been incomprehensible prior to the Renaissance. This sensibility underlies not only much of modern literature but also our modern ideas about conservation, ecology, and environmentalism. |
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... Arctic Saga : Polar Exploration , 1830-67 254 17 Desert Souls : The Great and Barren in European Literature , 1830-66 263 18 On the Beach : Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt 279 19 On the Heath : The 1870s 303 EPILOGUE : THE HEATH ...
... Arctic Saga : Polar Exploration , 1830-67 254 17 Desert Souls : The Great and Barren in European Literature , 1830-66 263 18 On the Beach : Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt 279 19 On the Heath : The 1870s 303 EPILOGUE : THE HEATH ...
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... Arctic . All of these con- tributed to the movement ( if that is not too formal a term ) discussed here . Had I based my title on another writer and started with Longinus or Thomas Burnet or Marjorie Hope Nicolson , the argument would ...
... Arctic . All of these con- tributed to the movement ( if that is not too formal a term ) discussed here . Had I based my title on another writer and started with Longinus or Thomas Burnet or Marjorie Hope Nicolson , the argument would ...
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... Arctic wastes ( coded as “ Thule ” ) – is more in tune with thoughtful modern minds than are an- cient Greek ideals of natural beauty ( “ Tempe ” ) . He predicts that eventu- ally the " commonest tourist " will prefer Iceland , the Alps ...
... Arctic wastes ( coded as “ Thule ” ) – is more in tune with thoughtful modern minds than are an- cient Greek ideals of natural beauty ( “ Tempe ” ) . He predicts that eventu- ally the " commonest tourist " will prefer Iceland , the Alps ...
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... Richard Bevis. Elisha Kent Kane , Ice Bergs Near Kosoak ( 1856 ) . A moment of peaceful sailing among awesome perils near Lifeboat Cove . See p . 260. ( Kane , Arctic Explorations , 2:56 ) E. K. Kane , Parting Hawsers Off Godsend Ledge (
... Richard Bevis. Elisha Kent Kane , Ice Bergs Near Kosoak ( 1856 ) . A moment of peaceful sailing among awesome perils near Lifeboat Cove . See p . 260. ( Kane , Arctic Explorations , 2:56 ) E. K. Kane , Parting Hawsers Off Godsend Ledge (
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... Arctic sailing . See p . 260. ( Kane , Arctic Explorations , 1:71 ) Auguste Bisson , Glacier des Boissons ( 1861 ) .
... Arctic sailing . See p . 260. ( Kane , Arctic Explorations , 1:71 ) Auguste Bisson , Glacier des Boissons ( 1861 ) .
Índice
Tempe and Thule | 3 |
UNDERPINNINGS | 9 |
RECOGNIZING GREATNESS THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 39 |
FROM SUBLIMITY TO BARRENNESS THE ROMANTIC PERIOD | 99 |
SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY THE NINETEENTH CENTURY | 159 |
THE HEATH REVISITED | 327 |
Chronology | 333 |
Lexicon | 349 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Addison admiration aesthetic Alpine Alps Antarctic Arctic Arnold awful barren beauty Burnet Byron Carlyle century Chamonix chapter cliffs climb climbers Coleridge Darwin deist desert desolate early earth Egdon Heath eighteenth-century emotions Empedocles English essay eternal European expedition explorers feeling Flaubert Fromentin geologists geology glaciers Goethe grand grandeur Hardy Hardy's heavens human idea imagination infinite infinity interest John journal Kant land landscape later lines Lyell Mary Shelley Melville metaphorical mind misanthropy modern Mont Blanc moun Mountain Gloom narrative nature night nineteenth nineteenth-century Northwest Passage ocean peaks philosophical plains poem poets polar Princess of Thule religious rock Romantic Ruskin Sahara Saussure says scene scenery scientific seems sense Shaftesbury Shelley snow solitude soul spiritual sublime summit T.H. Huxley Tennyson Théophile Gautier Thomas Burnet Thomson Thule tion travel literature travellers Tyndall uniformitarian vast Victorian void volcanoes Voyage waste wild wilderness winter Wordsworth writers wrote