Title Women travel writers and the language of landscape aesthetics, 1716-1818 / Elizabeth A. Bohls

Published Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Description x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 13 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 13 Contents 1. Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley Montagu's letters -- 2. Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism -- 3. Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque -- 4. Helen Maria Williams' revolutionary landscapes -- 5. Mary Wollstonecraft's anti-aesthetics -- 6. Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics and scenic tourism -- 7. The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho -- 8. Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Aesthetics, British -- 18th century. Aesthetics, British -- 19th century. English language -- Style. English language -- 18th century -- Style. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. English language -- 19th century -- Style. English prose literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Travelers' writings, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Travel writing -- History. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Travelers' writings, English -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Landscapes in literature. Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism. LC no. 94043861 ISBN 0521474582 (hardback) 0521607108 (paperback)

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