A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century
Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry,
landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and
scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic
premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be
separated. Vision embraces panoramic seeing from high places, but
also the seeing of ghosts and spectres when madness and
hallucination impinge upon landscape. The rise of geology and the
spread of empires upset the existing comfortable orders of
comprehension of landscape. Reverie and imagination produced
powerful interpretive actions, while landscape in French culture
proved central to the rejection of conservative classicism in
favour of perceptual questioning of experience. The experience of
subjectivity proved central to the perception of landscape while
the visual culture of landscape became of paramount importance to
modernity during the period in question.
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