Tess Somervell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4511711 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tess Somervell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tess |
| FAMILY NAME | Somervell |
| SIGNATURE | SOMERVELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6249-7505 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1940 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
Reading Time in the Long Poem
Reading Time in the Long Poem
Shade Softening into Shade
This chapter argues that Thomson, by obscuring whether the movement of The Seasons is across time or space, is able to suggest both the independence and interconnectedness of each moment in time and each occasion or event in the natural world. The crucial question is whether God is an immediate cause, intervening at each moment to shape the world, or a first or original cause, deferred from the present by time and a long chain of intermediate or …
Years Flowed In Between
In The Prelude , Wordsworth privileges certain ‘spots of time’, seeming to extract them from the timeline of his autobiographical narrative. But Wordsworth’s desire to trace his own progress requires a linear temporality and continuity. This chapter examines examples of the spots of time and shows how they function not as spots but as prospects, in which the initial focus opens out into a wider view of space and time. The spots of time passages d…
‘Down on the Farm’ – Introduction to the Special Issue on Agriculture and Environment
In his 1946 work While Following the Plough, John Stewart Collis reflects on the transformation of a rural field from barrenness to bounty through agricultural cultivation, and exclaims: ‘A farmer
Introduction
The development of the environmental humanities as an interdisciplinary formation is a response to an ecological and planetary crisis [...]
Americans on Everest
Knife and Life in India
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Knife and Life in India
Americans on Everest
‘Down on the Farm’ – Introduction to the Special Issue on Agriculture and Environment
In his 1946 work While Following the Plough, John Stewart Collis reflects on the transformation of a rural field from barrenness to bounty through agricultural cultivation, and exclaims: ‘A farmer
Introduction
The development of the environmental humanities as an interdisciplinary formation is a response to an ecological and planetary crisis [...]
Reading Time in the Long Poem
Reading Time in the Long Poem
Shade Softening into Shade
This chapter argues that Thomson, by obscuring whether the movement of The Seasons is across time or space, is able to suggest both the independence and interconnectedness of each moment in time and each occasion or event in the natural world. The crucial question is whether God is an immediate cause, intervening at each moment to shape the world, or a first or original cause, deferred from the present by time and a long chain of intermediate or …
Years Flowed In Between
In The Prelude , Wordsworth privileges certain ‘spots of time’, seeming to extract them from the timeline of his autobiographical narrative. But Wordsworth’s desire to trace his own progress requires a linear temporality and continuity. This chapter examines examples of the spots of time and shows how they function not as spots but as prospects, in which the initial focus opens out into a wider view of space and time. The spots of time passages d…
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion consid…
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