The Sublime and the Beautiful

Wordsworth, William; Owen, Wilfred; Smyser, Jane Worthington

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“…6 The Romantic sublime is itself of course a theory of affect. Contemplating ‘that cluster of Mountains at the Head of Windermere’, Wordsworth describes landscape affects that are external to, and yet which leave their mark on, a discursive register: ‘Power awakens the sublime […] when it rouses us to a sympathetic energy & calls upon the mind to grasp at something towards which it can make approaches but which it is incapable of attaining—yet to that it participates force which is acting upon it’ (Wordsworth 2004: 83-4).…”

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Belonging to a Different Landscape: Repurposing Nationalist Affects

Pitcher

2016

Sociological Research Online

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This is an article about the embodied, sensual experience of rural landscape as a site where racialized feelings of national belonging get produced. Largely impervious to criticism and reformation by 'thin' legal-political versions of multicultural or cosmopolitan citizenship, it is my suggestion that this racialized belonging is best confronted through the recognition and appreciation of precisely what makes it so compelling. Through an engagement with the theorization of affect in the work of Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly, I consider the resources immanent to the perception of landscapes of national belonging that might be repurposed to unravel that belonging from within. I suggest that forms of environmental consciousness can unpick the mutually reinforcing relationships between nature and nation, opening up opportunities for thinking identity and belonging in different ways, and allowing rural landscapes to become more hospitable places.

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