Women travel writers and the language of aesthetics, 1716-1818 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bohls, Elizabeth A.
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Description:	x, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in Romanticism 13
Subject:	Travelers' writings, English -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Women travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism. English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century. Aesthetics, British -- 18th century. Aesthetics, British -- 19th century. Landscapes in literature. English language -- Composition and exercises. Aesthetics, British. English language -- Style. English prose literature. English prose literature -- Women authors. Landscapes in literature. Travel writing. Travelers' writings, English. Women and literature. Women travelers -- Biography. Great Britain. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2334712

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ISBN:	0521474582 (hardback)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-305) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Aesthetics and Orientalism in Mary Wortley MontaguÆs letters
2. Janet Schaw and the aesthetics of colonialism
3. Landscape aesthetics and the paradox of the female picturesque
4. Helen Maria WilliamsÆ revolutionary landscapes
5. Mary WollstonecraftÆs anti-aesthetics
6. Dorothy Wordsworth and the cultural politics of scenic tourism
7. The picturesque and the female sublime in Ann RadcliffeÆs Mysteries of Udolpho
8. Aesthetics, gender, and empire in Mary ShelleyÆs Frankenstein

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