Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840

Peter De Bolla is Lecturer in the English Faculty and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of The Education of the Eye (2003), Art Matters (2001), with Andrew Ashfield The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory (1996) and The Discourse of The Sublime (1989). Nigel Leask is Reader in Romantic Literature in the English Faculty and Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge, UK. He is the author of numerous books and articles in Romantic Literature, his most recent publication being Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing, 1770-1840 (2002). He is currently working on a book on Robert Burns and British Romanticism. David Simpson is Professor of English and G.B.Needham Fellow at the University of California, Davis, USA. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Romanticism and on literary theory, most recently The Academic Postmodern (1995) and Situatedness (2002).

• List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction Reforming Landscape: Turner and Nottingham; S.Daniels The Simple Life: Cottages and Gainsborough's Cottage Doors; A.Bermingham The Other Half of the Landscape: Thomas Heaphy's Watercolour Nasties; D.H.Solkin Chardin at the Edge of Belief: Overlooked Issues of Religion and Dissent in Eighteenth-Century French Painting; T.Crow The Sabine Women and Lévi-Strauss; T.J.Clark 'Love and Madness': Sentimental Narratives and the Spectacle of Suffering in Late Eighteenth-Century Romance; J.Brewer 'A Submission, Sir!': Who has the Right to Person in Eighteenth-Century Britain?; P.de Bolla Suspicious Minds: Spies and Surveillance in Charlotte Smith's Novels of the 1790s; H.Guest Wordsworth and Empire - Just Joking; D.Simpson Burns, Wordsworth, and the Politics of Vernacular Poetry; N.Leask Organic Form and it's Consequences; F.Ferguson Index

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