Emergence of the 'picturesque' (jan 1, 1780 – jan 1, 1840)
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- especially due to the inland travel encouraged by the French revolution because the continent was effectively closed off to travellers
(appetite was whetted by the craze for Ossian - travellers wanted to experience the new sublime)
- comes to undergird the Romantic Movement
- mediated between the mildness of the 'beautiful' and the terrifying extremity of the 'sublime'
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