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title = "Landscape",
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. ",
keywords = "Landscape, environmental humanities, Romanticism, Ecocriticism, Climate, Improvement, Travel writing, Personal essay, Mobility, Periodicals",
author = "David Stewart",
year = "2024",
month = may,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198834540.013.18",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198834540",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "159--176",
editor = "Robert Morrison",
booktitle = "The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose",
address = "United Kingdom",
}