CONTENTS

Acknowledgements ix
Contributors x
List of Figures xiv

Introduction – Christoph Bode and Jacqueline Labbe 1

1 ‘How Bursts the Landscape on my Sight!’: Pedestrian Excursions into
the Romantic Landscape – Felicitas Menhard 15
2 At the Intersection of Artifice and Reality – Jacqueline Labbe 25

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3 Sublime Landscapes and Ancient Traditions: Eighteenth-Century
Literary Tourism in Scotland – Kristin Ott 39
4 ‘Plumb-Pudding Stone’ and the Romantic Sublime: The Landscape
and Geology of the Trossachs in The Statistical Account of Scotland
(1791–9) – Tom Furniss 51
5 Readers of Romantic Locality: Tourists, Loch Katrine and The Lady of
the Lake –Nicola J. Watson 67
6 Paradox Inn: Home and Passing Through at Grasmere – Polly Atkin 81
7 ‘O all pervading Album!’: Place and Displacement in Romantic
Albums and Album Poetry – Samantha Matthews 99
8 Into the Woods: Robin Hood and Sherwood Forest in the Romantic
Imagination – Stefanie Fricke 117
9 Inspiration, Toleration and Relocation in Ann Radcliffe’s A Journey
Made in the Summer of 1794, Through Holland and the Western
Frontier of Germany (1795) – Angela Wright 131
10 Henry Crabb Robinson’s Initiation into the ‘Mysteries of the New
School’: A Romantic Journey – James Vigus 145
11 Italy as a Romantic Location in the Poetry of the Original English
Della Cruscans – Rolf Lessenich 157
12 The Location of Vacancy: Pompeii and the Panorama – Sophie Thomas 169
13 Italy Visited and Revisited: Wordsworth’s ‘Magnificent Debt’ –
J. Douglas Kneale 185
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14 Hollow Skies, Hupaithric Temples and Pythagoreans: Shelley’s Dim

Crotonian Truths – Rosa Karl 197
15 ‘An Imaginary Line Drawn through Waste and Wilderness’: Scott’s
The Talisman – Silvia Mergenthal 209
16 Exploded Convictions, Perished Certainties: The Transformational
Experience of the South Seas in Georg Forster’s A Voyage Round the
World – Christoph Bode 221

Notes 237
Works Cited 281
Index 301

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