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| Preface | ||
| Introduction: Tempe and Thule | 1 | |
| I | Underpinnings | 9 |
| 1 | The Great as Aesthetic Category | 11 |
| 2 | Knowing the Planet: Early Travel and Exploration | 15 |
| 3 | Coming to Terms: Philosophy, Religion, and Science | 25 |
| II | Recognizing Greatness: The Eighteenth Century | 39 |
| 4 | The Great and Sublime: British Aesthetics | 41 |
| 5 | Wild Writing: The Great in Georgian Literature | 53 |
| 6 | Breaking Loose: European Developments to Goethe | 75 |
| 7 | Enlarged Views: English Travel and Exploration | 89 |
| III | From Sublimity to Barrenness: The Romantic Period | 99 |
| 8 | Mind and Earth: Philosophy and Science | 101 |
| 9 | Poetic Feet: England's Peripatetic Bards | 111 |
| 10 | Landscapes in Prose: Fiction and Travel | 138 |
| IV | Science and Sensibility: The Nineteenth Century | 159 |
| 11 | "Go and See": Lyell, Geology, and Belief | 161 |
| 12 | "What Is Nature?" Some Influential Views, 1830-70 | 186 |
| 13 | Leaving Blanks: American Novelists and the Great | 204 |
| 14 | The Naked Truth: Desert Travel, 1830-70 | 223 |
| 15 | Mighty Fortresses: The Meanings of Mountains, 1830-70 | 239 |
| 16 | The Arctic Saga: Polar Exploration, 1830-67 | 254 |
| 17 | Desert Souls: The Great and Barren in European Literature, 1830-66 | 263 |
| 18 | On the Beach: Victorian Writers by the Sea of Doubt | 279 |
| 19 | On the Heath: The 1870s | 303 |
| Epilogue: The Heath Revisited | 327 | |
| Chronology | 333 | |
| Lexicon | 349 | |
| Works Cited | 375 | |
| Index | 397 |
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