Seascapes of the Sublime: Vernet, Monet, and the Oceanic Feeling
New Literary History 1985 Steven Z. Levine 13 citations
southern coast of Brittany (fig. 1). In its fantastic configurations of grottoes, needles, and reefs formed by the incessant workings of the wind and waves, Belle-Ile offers as fine an example as any in France of that category of natural scenery that during the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries came to be designated as the sublime. It is not the sublime forces and forms of...