The road to Egdon Heath : the aesthetics of the great in nature / Richard Bevis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-396) and index.

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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

8 Mind and Earth: Philosophy and Science9 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

17 Desert Souls: The Great and Barren in European Literature, 1830�6618 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

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