dc.contributor.author | Falke, Cassandra | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-02T08:40:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-04-02T08:40:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter examines the influence of William Bartram´s <i>Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida</i> on the writing of Wordsworth and Coleridge in the 1790s and highlights the uniqueness of Bartram´s eco-centric approach to sublimity in early American thinking about the natural world. A practiced botanist and natural illustrator, Bartram delights in cataloguing plant and animal lives, but the Travels also offers a significant intervention into trans-Atlantic discourses of sublimity. Bartram´s sublime overwhelms the perceiver with plentitude rather than terror, and he narrates experiences of sublimity from amidst the rich life he delights to describe rather than at a distance. He emphasizes continuity between human and more-than-human lives. Bartram also resists the nationalistic orientation of his American contemporaries, attending to native and local epistemologies. The chapter concludes with comparisons between passages of the <i>Travels</i>, Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” and Wordsworth’s “Ruth.” | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Falke C: The Sublime in American Romanticism. In: Duffy C. The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime, 2023. Cambridge University Press p. 207-220 | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 2161588 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.019 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781009026963 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/33299 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Cambrigde University Press | en_US |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2023 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.title | The Sublime in American Romanticism | en_US |
dc.type.version | acceptedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Chapter | en_US |
dc.type | Bokkapittel | en_US |