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8 - Urban Sublimes

from Part II - Romantic Sublimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2023

Cian Duffy
Affiliation:
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
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This chapter opens by considering the vexed relationship between Romantic poetic practices that were increasingly interested in the powers and perceptions of individuals and the Romantic period’s burgeoning metropolitan profusion. The first sections explore the ambivalent or outright negative attitudes towards cities and their populations expressed by poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey and considers how distancing perspectives are employed in writings by Walter Scott and Letitia Landon. The later parts of the essay consider alternative versions of the urban sublime, touching on topographical and statistical representations by Thomas Malton and Patrick Colquhoun; celebrations of multiplicity by Pierce Egan and William Hazlitt; readings against the grain by Charles Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey and Charles Lamb; and considerations of ruination by John Martin, Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Mary Shelley.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Urban Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.011
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  • Urban Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.011
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  • Urban Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.011
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