Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840
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Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840

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Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840

About this book

Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1 Introduction
  10. 2 The Scientific Gaze and Museum Order
  11. 3 Natural History in the Contact Zone
  12. 4 Natural Order: Metaphor and Structure
  13. 5 Romantic Technique and Humboldtian Vision
  14. 6 Landscape and Nation-Building
  15. 7 The English Picturesque as Social Order
  16. 8 Natural Sublime and Feminine Sublime
  17. 9 Prescribing Nature: William Wordsworth’s Guide Through the Lakes
  18. 10 Textual Landscapes and Disappearing Nature
  19. Conclusion and Coda
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index