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Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision

Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision

Colbert, Benjamin

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0754604853
ISBN13: 9780754604853
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 28 2005
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an important travel writer in his own right. Informed by original research on a wide range of period travel writings, Shelley's Eye demonstrates how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular culture. His travel prose and 'visionary' poetry explore motives of perception underlying travel discourse and posit an authentic 'aesthetic vision' that reconfigures social, historical, and political meanings of 'sights' from the perspective of an ideal tourist-observer.

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