Romantic Visualities

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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JACQUELINE M. LABBE studied for her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994 and has been a Lecturer in Romantic-period Literature at the University of Sheffield since 1995. From 1993 to 1995 she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Northwestern University, USA. An active researcher on the confluence of gender, culture and literature, Dr Labbe has published in Genre, The Wordsworth Circle, Women's Writing, and several edited anthologies.

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Acknowledgements Introduction Engendering Landscape Perception: Romanticism and the Standards for Looking Masculinity, the Sublime, the Picturesque: The Allure of Theory Cultivating One's Understanding: The Garden and the Bower 'A Species of Knowledge both Useful and Ornamental': Travelling the Romantic Landscape Art, the Eye, and the Natural Text Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index