Nature, the Picturesque and the Sublime in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Travel Narratives
| dc.contributor.author | Braida, Antonella | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-02-01 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The article explores Mary Shelley’s approach to the sublime and the picturesque in her two travel narratives, History of a Six Weeks’ Tour and Rambles in Germany and Italy . These two accounts of her travels through France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany reveal her debt to a variety of contemporary sources aimed at exploring the nature of a sublime or picturesque experience. The analysis illustrates the complexity of Mary Shelley’s approach: while moving beyond the “egotistical sublime” typified by some key passages from William Wordsworth’s Prelude , her travel narratives reveal a variety of approaches to nature and the landscape, aimed at bridging present and past, personal experience and recent historical events. Thus, while in History , the experience of the landscape offers a way out of the suffering caused by the Napoleonic Wars, in Rambles , Mary Shelley turns to poetry and painting, this way transforming the eighteenth-century aesthetic appreciation of landscape based on the pictorial categories of the sublime and the beautiful, and embracing a modern, cultivated sensibility nourished by guidebooks and art history manuals. (AB) | en |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018) , | |
| dc.identifier.eissn | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | |
| dc.identifier.jtitle | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2437/294855 | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 24 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7243 | |
| dc.rights.access | Open Access | |
| dc.rights.owner | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.subject | Mary Shelley | en |
| dc.subject | travel narratives | en |
| dc.subject | sublime | en |
| dc.title | Nature, the Picturesque and the Sublime in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Travel Narratives | en |
| dc.type | folyóiratcikk | hu |
| dc.type | article | en |
| dc.type.detailed | idegen nyelvű folyóiratközlemény hazai lapban | hu |
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