Landscape

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Abstract

Landscape is central to Romantic literature. This chapter explores how Romantic prose does more than provide a commentary on the more famous accounts of landscape provided by dramatists, novelists, and poets. Romantic prose forms such as travel writing, personal essays, and aesthetic treatises gave readers and writers new modes of landscape appreciation. Rather than seeing prose as a factual backdrop to the creative transformations of place that characterize Romanticism, it considers a series of innovations in prose forms that think through the complex ways in which land is shaped in a period deeply concerned with that very process due to significant changes in agriculture, aesthetics, science, and colonialism. Considering writers including Ann Radcliffe, John Clare, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg, and Mary Wollstonecraft, the chapter suggests the vitality and the complexity of the relationship between Romantic prose and landscape.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose
EditorsRobert Morrison
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Chapter9
Pages159-176
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9780198899747
ISBN (Print)9780198834540
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 May 2024

Publication series

NameOxford Handbooks
PublisherOxford University Press

Keywords

  • Landscape
  • environmental humanities
  • Romanticism
  • Ecocriticism
  • Climate
  • Improvement
  • Travel writing
  • Personal essay
  • Mobility
  • Periodicals

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