The Landscapes of the Sublime 1700-1830

The Landscapes of the Sublime examines the place of the 'natural sublime' in the cultural history of the eighteenth century and Romantic period. Drawing on a range of scholarship and historical sources, it offers a fresh perspective on the different species of the 'natural sublime' encountered by British and European travellers and explorers.

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Cian Duffy is Fellow of the Cambridge European Society and Reader in English Literature at St Mary's University College, UK. His research interests are in British eighteenth-century and Romantic-period literature and culture. Previous publications include Shelley and the Revolutionary Sublime and Cultures of the Sublime.

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'We had hopes that pointed to the clouds': the Alps and the Poetics of Ascent 2. 'A volcano heard afar': Vesuvius, Etna, and the Poetics of Depth 3. 'The region of beauty and delight': Re-imagining the Polar Sublime 4. 'The lone and level sands': Romanticism and the Desert 5. 'My purpose was humbler, but also higher': Thomas De Quincey at the Final Frontier Bibliography Index