LEADER 04384nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910815967703321 005 20240416193059.0 010 $a1-282-85538-7 010 $a9786612855382 010 $a0-7735-6753-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780773567535 035 $a(CKB)1000000000713587 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283777 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11228055 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283777 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10249970 035 $a(PQKB)10796031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)400324 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3331157 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10141829 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL285538 035 $a(OCoLC)929121509 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/sz7ncz 035 $a(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/1/400324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3331157 035 $a(DE-B1597)657204 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780773567535 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3245507 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000713587 100 $a19981223d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe road to Egdon Heath $ethe aesthetics of the great in nature /$fRichard Bevis 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc1999 215 $axv, 409 p., [8] p. of plates $cill. ;$d24 cm 225 1 $aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;$v25 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7735-1800-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [375]-396) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tIntroduction: Tempe and Thule -- $tUnderpinnings -- $tThe Great as Aesthetic Category -- $tKnowing the Planet: Early Travel and Exploration -- $tComing to Terms: Philosophy, Religion, and Science -- $tRecognizing Greatness: The Eighteenth Century -- $tThe Great and the Sublime: British Aesthetics -- $tWild Writing: The Great in Georgian Literature -- $tBreaking Loose: European Developments to Goethe -- $tEnlarged Views: English Travel and Exploration -- $tFrom Sublimity to Barrenness: The Romantic Period -- $tMind and Earth: Philosophy and Science -- $tPoetic Feet: England?s Peripatetic Bards -- $tLandscapes in Prose: Fiction and Travel -- $tScience and Sensibility: The Nineteenth Century -- $t?Go and See?: Lyell, Geology, and Belief -- $t?What Is Nature?? Some Influential Views, 1830?70 -- $tLeaving Blanks: American Novelists and the Great -- $tThe Naked Truth: Desert Travel, 1830?70 -- $tMighty Fortresses: The Meanings of Mountains, 1830?70 -- $tThe Arctic Saga: Polar Exploration, 1830?67 -- $tDesert Souls: The Great and Barren in European Literature, 1830?66 -- $tOn the Beach: Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt -- $tOn the Heath: The 1870s -- $tThe Heath Revisited -- $tChronological Table -- $tLexicon -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aBevis examines a wide range of English, European, and North American texts, literary works as well as religious, scientific, and travel writing. He surveys the literature on mountain climbing, sea voyages, desert travel, and polar exploration, and its metaphorical uses in poetry and fiction. Relying on Addison's term "the Great" rather than "the sublime," he shows how works such as Darwin's journals, Lyell's studies in geology, and de Saussure's books on the Alps helped form an outlook on nature that also found frequent literary expression. A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary work in the history of ideas, The Road to Egdon Heath traces the growth of an aesthetic sensibility that is now ubiquitous but which would have been incomprehensible prior to the Renaissance. This sensibility underlies not only much of modern literature but also our modern ideas about conservation, ecology, and environmentalism. 410 0$aMcGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;$v25. 606 $aNature (Aesthetics) 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aLandscapes in literature 615 0$aNature (Aesthetics) 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aLandscapes in literature. 676 $a809/.9336 700 $aBevis$b Richard W$0131315 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815967703321 996 $aThe road to Egdon Heath$94042554 997 $aUNINA