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Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision.(Book review)
From: Wordsworth Circle
Date: 20050922
Author:Ulmer, William A.
Benjamin Colbert, Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision
(Ashgate 2005) xi + 259 $89.95
Benjamin Colbert's Shelley's Eye concerns the changing culture of tourism in post-Napoleonic Europe as it was experienced and described by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Colbert's Introduction and first chapter discuss the Grand Tour as a site of cultural conflict in which traditional norms of social observation and aesthetic appreciation were reshaped by new modes of travel and mass culture after 1814. He proposes that changing practices of tourism reflected changing ideas of ...
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