Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818

"British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries eagerly consumed books of travel in an age of imperial expansion that was also the formative period of modern aesthetics. Beauty, sublimity, sensuous surfaces, and scenic views became conventions of travel writing as Britons appl...

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Main Author : Bohls Elizabeth A. (Auteur)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818 / Elizabeth A. Bohls
Published : Cambridge, New York, Port Melbourne [etc.] : Cambridge University Press , 2004
Physical Description : 1 vol. (X-309 p.)
Series : Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 13
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