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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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Bohls, Elizabeth A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 13.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.