Shelley's Eye

Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Shelley's Eye by Benjamin Colbert, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Benjamin Colbert ISBN: 9781351900409
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Benjamin Colbert
ISBN: 9781351900409
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 2, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
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. This book is informed by original research on a wide range of period travel writings, including Mary Shelley and Shelley's neglected collaboration, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), in which 'Mont Blanc' first appeared. Fully responsive to the culture of travel, Shelley's travel prose and poetry form fascinating conversations with major Romantic travellers like Byron, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth, as well as lesser-known but widely read travel writers of the day, including Morris Birkbeck, Charlotte Eaton, and John Chetwode Eustace. In this provocative study, Benjamin Colbert demonstrates how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular culture. Shelley's 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. Shelley's Eye offers a new perspective on Shelley's intellectual history. It is also a timely and important contribution to recent interdisciplinary scholarship that aims to re-evaluate Romantic idealism in the context of physical, experiential, or material cultural practices.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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. This book is informed by original research on a wide range of period travel writings, including Mary Shelley and Shelley's neglected collaboration, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), in which 'Mont Blanc' first appeared. Fully responsive to the culture of travel, Shelley's travel prose and poetry form fascinating conversations with major Romantic travellers like Byron, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth, as well as lesser-known but widely read travel writers of the day, including Morris Birkbeck, Charlotte Eaton, and John Chetwode Eustace. In this provocative study, Benjamin Colbert demonstrates how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular culture. Shelley's 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. Shelley's Eye offers a new perspective on Shelley's intellectual history. It is also a timely and important contribution to recent interdisciplinary scholarship that aims to re-evaluate Romantic idealism in the context of physical, experiential, or material cultural practices.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Transition and Development in India by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Political Islam, World Politics and Europe by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Reclaiming Early Childhood Literacies by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book The First-Year English Teacher's Guidebook by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Islamophobia in Muslim Majority Societies by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book The Use of Self in Therapy by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book The State and Social Welfare, 1997 by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Young People, New Theatre by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Industry and Innovation by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Interpreting the Bible and Aristotle in Late Antiquity by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book The Longue Durée of the Far-Right by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book The Necessity of Choice by Benjamin Colbert
Cover of the book Scientific Progress by Benjamin Colbert
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy