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Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 1716-1818 /

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0521474582

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9780521474580

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Title Proper

Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 1716-1818 /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Elizabeth A. Bohls

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 309 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;

Volume Designation

13

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-305) and index

Text of Note

Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters -- Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism -- Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque -- Helen Maria Williams' revolutionary landscapes -- Mary Wollstonecraft's anti-aesthetics -- Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics of scenic tourism -- The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho -- Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

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Text of Note

Bohls's study expands our awareness of women's intellectual presence in Romantic literature, and suggests Romanticism's sources might be at the peripheries of empire rather than at its center

Text of Note

British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries eagerly consumed books of travels in an age of imperial expansion that was also the formative period of modern aesthetics. Beauty, sublimity, sensuous surfaces, and scenic views became conventions of travel writing as Britons applied familiar terms to unfamiliar places around the globe. The social logic of aesthetics, argues Elizabeth Bohls, constructed women, the laboring classes, and non-Europeans as foils against which to define the "man of taste" as an educated, property-owning gentleman. Women writers from Mary Wortley Montagu to Mary Shelley resisted this exclusion from gentlemanly privilege, and their writings re-examine and question aesthetic conventions such as the concept of disinterested contemplation, subtly but insistently exposing its vested interests

Aesthetics, British-- 18th century

Aesthetics, British-- 19th century

English language-- 18th century-- Style

English language-- 19th century-- Style

English prose literature-- 18th century-- History and criticism

English prose literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism

English prose literature-- Women authors-- History and criticism

Landscapes in literature

Travel writing-- History

Travelers' writings, English-- History and criticism

Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century

Women and literature-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century

Women travelers-- Great Britain-- Biography-- History and criticism

Anglais (Langue) - Stylistique

Écrits de femmes anglais - Histoire et critique

Écrits de voyageuses anglais - Histoire et critique

Esthétique britannique - 18e siècle

Esthétique britannique - 19e siècle

Femmes et littérature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 18e siècle

Femmes et littérature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siècle

Paysage dans la littérature

Prose anglaise - 18e siècle - Histoire et critique

Prose anglaise - 19e siècle - Histoire et critique

Voyageuses - Grande-Bretagne - Biographies - Histoire et critique

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Book number

Bohls, Elizabeth A

Date of Transaction

20160712061152.0

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