scholarly journals Aniela Walewska’s Carpathian trail

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 197-221
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Król
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
The Carpathians ◽  
Mountain Landscapes ◽  
Tourist Information ◽  
Female Experience

The aim of the article is to bring back from obscurity a travel account, Wycieczka z Szczawnicy do Szmeks (A Trip from Szczawnica to Szmeksy) by a forgotten writer of the Romantic period, Aniela Walewska (1826–1873). During her Carpathian trip in the summer 1854 she admired mountain landscapes and visited historically attractive localities. The traveller began her several-day-long trip in Szczawnica, subsequently visiting, among others, Lubowla, Podoliniec, Kieżmark, Szmeks and Nowa Wieś. As she traversed the Carpathians, she got to know the local architecture, paint-ings and sculptures, saw buildings in fashionable resorts, enthused over the picturesque sight of the Pieniny range and the forbidding beauty of the Tatras, fully sensing the unique aura of the mountain scenery. The extraordinary landscapes were a source of many unforgettable emotional and aesthetic experiences for the writer. She was absorbed particularly by the Tatra waterfalls, which moved her heart and soul. In addition, Aniela Walewska made observations concerning the methods and condition of travel, noted down historical and tourist information, and revealed sensations and impressions accompanying her during the excursion. Thus her account can be regarded not only as a culturally and socially interesting document of the period, but also as a record of a personal, female experience of a newly explored space. In addition, it is also a document of the life of an individual — a nineteenth-century woman of letters — which should be classified as a valuable source for the study of her biography and work.

scholarly journals The spaces of truth and cathedral window light

Literator ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-118
Author(s):  
G. Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Multiple Contexts ◽  
Western Development ◽  
Permanent Loss ◽  
The Church ◽  
Complex Expression

Major writers and painters of the Romantic period interpreted the church or cathedral in its organic and spiritual dimensions as a complex expression of a matured Christian civilization. Artists of the mid-nineteenth century continued to produce both secular and religious variations upon this established referentiality. Although divergent uses reciprocally reinforced the fascination for the central imagery of the church and its multiple contexts, they also came to suggest a deeper tension in Western development between what the church had meant in an earlier Europe and what it might mean for late modernity. The threat of a permanent loss of cultural values was an issue haunting Realist approaches. A crucial revision occurred when key Symbolist poets openly revived the first Romantic themes but treated them as contents available to a decidedly post-Romantic historical consciousness. There was an analogous revival of interest in the church as a culturally charged symbol in painting around the turn of the century. Although they might apply this poetic and pictorial heritage in strikingly different ways, writers of high Modernism such as Rilke, Proust, and Kafka understood its richness and importance.

The Nineteenth Century Romantic Period

1979 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-279
Author(s):  
P. DODD ◽  
A. LINCOLN ◽  
J. R. WATSON
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period

The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 381-410
Author(s):  
N. ROE ◽  
S. MATTHEWS ◽  
J. WHALE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period

scholarly journals ‘A Kind of Geological Novel’: Wales and Travel Writing, 1783–1819

Romanticism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Geological Map ◽  
Humphry Davy

This article explores the layered and multivocal nature of Romantic-period travel writing in Wales through the theme of geology. Beginning with an analysis of the spectral sense of place that emerges from William Smith's 1815 geological map of England and Wales, it considers a range of travel texts, from the stones and fossils of Thomas Pennant's A Tour in Wales (1778–83), to Humphry Davy and Michael Faraday's early nineteenth-century Welsh travels, to little-known manuscript accounts. Wales is still the least-researched of the home nations in terms of the Enlightenment and the Romantic period, despite recent and ongoing work that has done much to increase its visibility. Travel writing, meanwhile, is a form whose popularity in the period is now little recognised. These points doubly position Welsh travel writing on the fringes of our field, in an outlying location compounded by the genre's status as a category that defies easy definition.

The Aesthetic Mediation

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-200
Author(s):  
Richard Viladesau
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
The Other ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Popular Piety ◽  
Biblical Scholarship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Cross ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Naturalistic Realism

In the visual arts of the Romantic period the crucifixion of Christ often became a representation of the sufferings of humanity. Caspar David Friedrich’s paintings placed the cross in the context of the immensity of nature. Toward the end of the nineteenth century there was an increasing tendency to portray Jesus’ suffering in the genre of naturalistic realism. Some painters consciously attempted to incorporate the findings of modern biblical scholarship, rather than follow traditional models. Early film representations, on the other hand, tended to rely on classical types and popular piety.

Mapping the ecosystem service delivery chain: Capacity, flow, and demand pertaining to aesthetic experiences in mountain landscapes

2017 ◽  
Vol 574 ◽  
pp. 422-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Egarter Vigl ◽  
Daniel Depellegrin ◽  
Paulo Pereira ◽  
Rudolf de Groot ◽  
Ulrike Tappeiner
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Mountain Landscapes

The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period

1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-305
Author(s):  
B. BURNS ◽  
P. DODD ◽  
V. NEWEY
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period

XIII The Nineteenth Century: Romantic Period

1987 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 387-415
Author(s):  
V. NEWEY ◽  
B. BURNS ◽  
J. MICHIE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Romantic Period

Vocabula Amatoria: A Glossary of French Culinary Sex Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 1323-1336
Author(s):  
Rachel Hope Cleves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gold Mine ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Sexual Discourse ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
French And English ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Root Vegetables

Abstract John Stephen Farmer’s Vocabula Amatoria, published in 1896, is a French-English erotic dictionary that is a gold mine of popular sexual discourse. Farmer, editor of a seven-volume dictionary of English slang, based Vocabula Amatoria on three French erotic dictionaries published between 1861 and 1869 by Auguste Scheler, Alfred Delvau, and Jules Choux. The first of the three drew on literary sources, but Delvau’s and Choux’s dictionaries incorporated vernacular that they encountered in Paris’s cafés, cabarets, theaters, and brothels. Farmer’s translations also integrated English slang from the late nineteenth century that he either had collected for his dictionaries or had learned through his work as a journalist and editor living on the margins of respectability. Many of the French sexual idioms collected in Vocabula Amatoria incorporate food metaphors—for example, likening the penis to root vegetables, or the vagina to cooking tools. The English idioms are less food focused. Farmer’s dictionary is a valuable source for understanding the differences between French and English popular attitudes toward food and sex in the late nineteenth century.

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