Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 1716-1818 / Elizabeth A. Bohls.
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 f...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995. |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;
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