The Landscapes of the Sublime, 1700–1830

1. Introduction: In Search of ‘Classic Ground’
Cian Duffy

2. ‘We had hopes that pointed to the clouds’: The Alps and the Poetics of Ascent
Cian Duffy

3. ‘A volcano heard afar’: Vesuvius, Etna and the Poetics of Depth
Cian Duffy

4. ‘The region of beauty and delight’: Reimagining the Polar Sublime
Cian Duffy

5. ‘The lone and level sands’: Romanticism and the Desert
Cian Duffy

6. ‘My purpose was humbler, but also higher’: Thomas De Quincey at the Final Frontier
Cian Duffy

Avainsanat: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Fiction