Author: Charles HeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey...
Author: Charles HeathMonmouthshire. Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey,
Author: Charles HeathHistorical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Ragland Castle
Author: Charles HeathMonmouthshire. Historical and descriptive accounts of the ancient and present state of Ragland castle. To which are added brief notices of Wonastow, Tree-Owen, Dingatstow, and other objects in the road to Ragland
Author: RaglanHistorical and Descriptive Accounts of ... Tintern Abbey ...
Author: Charles Heath (Printer of Monmouth.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of the Town and Castle of Chepstow, Including the Pleasurable Regions of Persfield, and a Variety of Other Particulars ...
Author: Charles HeathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chepstow (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A Catalogue of Books, in Various Languages; Consisting of Divinity, Greek and Latin Classics, Many Interesting Illustrated Works, Grand Galleries of Art, and Other Books of Prints: ... the Whole of which are in Fine Condition & Warranted Perfect: Now on Sale at the Very Low Prices Affixed to Each Article
Author: William StrongCurious Travellers
Author: Mary-Ann ConstantinePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192593056
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Curious Travellers: Writing the Welsh Tour, 1760-1820 provides the first extensive literary study of British tours of Wales in the Romantic period (c.1760-1820). It examines writers' responses to Welsh landscapes and communities at a time of drastic economic, environmental, and political change. Opening with an overview of Welsh tours up to the early 1700s, Mary-Ann Constantine shows how the intensely intertextual nature of the genre imbued particular sites and locations with meaning. She next draws upon a range of manuscript and published sources to trace a circular tour of the country, unpicking moments of cultural entanglement and revealing how travel-writing shaped understanding of Wales and Welshness within the wider British polity. Wales became a popular destination for visitors following the publication of Thomas Pennant's Tours in Wales in the late 1770s. Hundreds of travel-accounts from the period are extant, yet few (particularly those by women) have been studied in depth. Wales proves, in these narratives, as much a place of disturbance as a picturesque haven--a potent mixture of medieval past and industrial present, exposed down its west coast to the threat of invasion during the Napoleonic Wars. From castles to copper-mines, Constantine explores the full potential of tour writing as an idiosyncratic genre at the interface of literature and history, arguing for its vital importance to broader cultural and environmental studies.
Romantic Naturalists, Early Environmentalists
Author: Dewey W. HallPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317061519
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In his study of Romantic naturalists and early environmentalists, Dewey W. Hall asserts that William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson were transatlantic literary figures who were both influenced by the English naturalist Gilbert White. In Part 1, Hall examines evidence that as Romantic naturalists interested in meteorology, Wordsworth and Emerson engaged in proto-environmental activity that drew attention to the potential consequences of the locomotive's incursion into Windermere and Concord. In Part 2, Hall suggests that Wordsworth and Emerson shaped the early environmental movement through their work as poets-turned-naturalists, arguing that Wordsworth influenced Octavia Hill’s contribution to the founding of the United Kingdom’s National Trust in 1895, while Emerson inspired John Muir to spearhead the United States’ National Parks movement in 1890. Hall’s book traces the connection from White as a naturalist-turned-poet to Muir as the quintessential early environmental activist who camped in Yosemite with President Theodore Roosevelt. Throughout, Hall raises concerns about the growth of industrialization to make a persuasive case for literature's importance to the rise of environmentalism.
The Book of British Topography
Author: John Parker AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description