Percy Bysshe Shelley joined the deluge of sightseers that poured
onto the Continent after Napoleon's defeat in 1814, and over the
next eight years Shelley followed major travelling trends, visiting
Switzerland in 1816 and Italy from 1818. Shelley's Eye is the first
study to address Shelley's participation in the travel culture of
Post-Napoleonic Europe, and the first to consider Shelley as an
important travel writer in his own right. This book is informed by
original research on a wide range of period travel writings,
including Mary Shelley and Shelley's neglected collaboration,
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), in which 'Mont Blanc' first
appeared. Fully responsive to the culture of travel, Shelley's
travel prose and poetry form fascinating conversations with major
Romantic travellers like Byron, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth, as
well as lesser-known but widely read travel writers of the day,
including Morris Birkbeck, Charlotte Eaton, and John Chetwode
Eustace. In this provocative study, Benjamin Colbert demonstrates
how the Grand Tour remains a vital cultural metaphor for Shelley
and his contemporaries, under pressure from mass travel and popular
culture. Shelley's 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. Shelley's Eye offers a new perspective on
Shelley's intellectual history. It is also a timely and important
contribution to recent interdisciplinary scholarship that aims to
re-evaluate Romantic idealism in the context of physical,
experiential, or material cultural practices.
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