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The road to Egdon Heath : the aesthetics of the great in nature /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal [Que.] :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
25. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
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- M
- N
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- S
- T
- U
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