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Alvey Nahoko Miyamoto <1961-> |
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Titolo |
Strange truths in undiscovered lands : Shelley's poetic development and romantic geography / / Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4426-9056-9 |
1-4426-8921-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (281 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Geography in literature |
Geopolitics in literature |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
Great Britain |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Note on Shelley Texts -- 1. Queen Mab: The Female Dreamers and a Pathless Wilderness -- 2. 'Alastor': A Solitary Quester and a New Eastern Geography -- 3. 'Mont Blanc': The Questioning Traveller and a Visiouary Geography of Chamonix -- 4. Prometheus Unbound: The Eastern and Western Lovers on the Highest Mountain -- 5. 'The Witch of Atlas': The Hybrid Explorer and Shelley's Joyous Challenge. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Strange Truths in Undiscovered Lands examines the ways in which Shelley developed a 'Romantic geography' to provide visionary alternatives to an earth devastated by a new type of European colonialism and global expansion. |
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