Shelley's EyeAuthor :
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Published : Monday 28 November 2016
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Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured onto the Continent after Napoleons defeat in 1814, and over the next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelleys Eye is the first study to address Shelleys participation in the travel culture of post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an important travel writer in his own right. Informed by original research on a wide range of period travel writings, Shelleys Eye demonstrates how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular culture. His travel prose and visionary poetry explore motives of perception underlying travel discourse and posit an authentic aesthetic vision that reconfigures social, historical, and political meanings of sights from the perspective of an ideal tourist-observer.
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