Romantic Visualities: Landscape, Gender and Romanticism

Labbe, J.

Romantic Visualities offers a culturally informed understanding of the literary significance of landscape in the Romantic period. Labbe argues that the Romantic period associated the prospect view with the masculine ideal, simultaneously fashioning the detailed point of view as feminised. An interdisciplinary study, it discusses the cultural construction of gender as defined through landscape viewing, and investigates property law, aesthetic tracts, conduct books, travel narratives, artistic theory, and the work of Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, Ann Francis, Dorothy Wordsworth and others.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-07-22

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333714492

DOI: 10.1057/9780230372931

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 222