Nature, the Picturesque and the Sublime in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Travel Narratives
| dc.creator | Braida, Antonella | |
| dc.date | 2021-02-01 | |
| dc.description | 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) | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7243 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Debreceni Egyetemi Kiadó | |
| dc.relation | https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/hjeas/article/view/7243/6648 | |
| dc.rights | Copyright (c) 2018 Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies | |
| dc.rights | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 | |
| dc.source | Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies; Vol. 24 No. 2 (2018) | |
| dc.source | 2732-0421 | |
| dc.source | 1218-7364 | |
| dc.subject | Mary Shelley | |
| dc.subject | travel narratives | |
| dc.subject | sublime | |
| dc.title | Nature, the Picturesque and the Sublime in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Travel Narratives | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
| dc.type | Peer-reviewed Article |
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