How Long to Read The Picturesque and the Sublime

How Long Does it Take to Read The Picturesque and the Sublime?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read The Picturesque and the Sublime by Susan Glickman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque. Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome – even terrifying – and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country. Susan Glickman is a poet living in Toronto. She is the author of Complicity, The Power to Move, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems, and Hide and Seek.

How long is The Picturesque and the Sublime?

The Picturesque and the Sublime by Susan Glickman is 234 pages long, and a total of 59,436 words.

This makes it 79% the length of the average book. It also has 73% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Picturesque and the Sublime Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read The Picturesque and the Sublime aloud.

What Reading Level is The Picturesque and the Sublime?

The Picturesque and the Sublime is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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