| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 409 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 25
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McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 25.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-396) and index. |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Tempe and Thule""; ""I: UNDERPINNINGS""; ""1 The Great as Aesthetic Category""; ""2 Knowing the Planet: Early Travel and Exploration""; ""3 Coming to Terms: Philosophy, Religion, and Science""; ""II: RECOGNIZING GREATNESS: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY""; ""4 The Great and Sublime: British Aesthetics""; ""5 Wild Writing: The Great in Georgian Literature""; ""6 Breaking Loose: European Developments to Goethe""; ""7 Enlarged Views: English Travel and Exploration""; ""III: FROM SUBLIMITY TO BARRENNESS: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD"" |
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""8 Mind and Earth: Philosophy and Science""""9 Poetic Feet: England's Peripatetic Bards""; ""10 Landscapes in Prose: Fiction and Travel""; ""IV: SCIENCE AND SENSIBILITY: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY""; ""11 ""Go and See"": Lyell, Geology, and Belief""; ""12 ""What Is Nature?"" Some Influential Views, 1830�70""; ""13 Leaving Blanks: American Novelists and the Great""; ""14 The Naked Truth: Desert Travel, 1830�70""; ""15 Mighty Fortresses: The Meanings of Mountains, 1830�70""; ""16 The Arctic Saga: Polar Exploration, 1830�67"" |
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""17 Desert Souls: The Great and Barren in European Literature, 1830�66""""18 On the Beach: Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt""; ""19 On the Heath: The 1870s""; ""EPILOGUE: THE HEATH REVISITED""; ""Chronology""; ""Lexicon""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y"" |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928. |
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Nature (Aesthetics) |
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Landscapes in literature.
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Landscapes in literature. |
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Sublime, The, in literature.
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Sublime, The, in literature. |
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Landscapes.
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Landscapes. |
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Sublime, The.
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Sublime, The. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bevis, Richard W. Road to Egdon Heath. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1999 (DLC) 99900097 |
| ISBN |
9780773567535 (electronic book) |
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0773567534 (electronic book) |
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0773518002 |
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9780773518001 |
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