Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818

by Elizabeth A. Bohls

Book Overview

British readers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries eagerly consumed books of travel in an age of imperial expansion that was also the formative period of modern aesthetics. Beauty, sublimity, sensuous surfaces, and scenic views became conventions of travel writing as Britons applied familiar terms to unfamiliar places around the globe. The social logic of aesthetics, argues Elizabeth Bohls, constructed women, the labouring classes, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521607108
• ISBN13: 9780521607100
• Release Date: June 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.0"