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03152aam a2200397 i 4500 001 920F40F2B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20130507010107 008 121127s2012 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2012041124 020 $a 1137030356 020 $a 9781137030351 035 $a (OCoLC)815728023 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d UKMGB $d YDXCP $d YNK $d NLE $d OCLCO $d CDX $d BWX $d CUT $d OCLCO $d COO $d PUL $d MUU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR756.T72 $b S64 2012 082 00 $a 828/.50809355 $2 23 100 1 $a Smethurst, Paul. 245 10 $a Travel writing and the natural world, 1768-1840 / $c Paul Smethurst. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2012. 300 $a x, 243 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-234) and index. 520 $a "While there is increasing anxiety about the natural world and many are calling for action on the environment, academic discourse on the subject has been dominated by romantic ideas of wilderness, new primitivisms, and philosophical approaches to the concept of nature. This book explores the heyday of travel writing about the natural world between 1768 and 1840. The starting point is the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, natural history, scenic tourism and romantic travel. The lasting effect of these practices has been to turn nature into a detached and abstract space and travel writing had a central role in this process.Unifying a wide field of enquiry is the argument that travel writing, whether presenting scientific information or aesthetic responses to landscape, shares a common interest in finding order and structure in nature. Even where political imperatives are not explicit, a tendency towards imperial order is found; empire is writ large and small. As little resistance to the idea of order is found, we can conclude that, through nature, travel writing in the eighteenth century was generally supportive of empire, trade and the landowning class."--Publisher's website. 505 0 $a The Scientific Gaze and Museum Order -- Natural History in the Contact Zone -- Natural Order: Metaphor and Structure -- Romantic Technique and Humboldtian Vision -- Landscape and Nation-Building -- The English Picturesque as Social Order -- Natural Sublime and Feminine Sublime -- Prescribing Nature: Wordsworth's Guide To The Lakes -- Textual Landscapes and Disappearing Nature -- Conclusion and Coda. 650 0 $a Travel writing $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a English prose literature $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Travel writing $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a English prose literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Travelers' writings $y 18th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Travelers' writings $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Nature in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226012816.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826064642.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=920F40F2B6DB11E2AF0A76A3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search