Undertakes a reconceptualization of the theoretical and experiential framework of the Romantic sublime by shifting the focus from Burke's and Kant's prescriptions of natural vastness and grandeur to the narrower but no less wondrous spaces, objects and experiences of everyday life.

The role of the everyday in Romantic literature has in recent years received greater scholarly attention, particularly from critics dissatisfied with the perpetuation of what Karina Williamson characterizes as a 'debased Romanticism which rules there is a category of experience and expression which is poetic and all the rest is ordinary and inadmissible.' The present study serves to map the intersections of these categories of experience and expression - the sublime and the quotidian - and thereby to challenge our assumptions about the aesthetic value of the everyday not only in the Romantic period but also in our own.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction. Placing the Sublime
Chapter I. Sublime Descents: From Mountaintops to Home
Chapter II. Particularity and 'Intimate Immensity'
Chapter III. Sublime Transport and the Making of Space
Chapter IV. Simple Flowers and Familiar Soil: The Consolations of
Everyday Life
Conclusion. The Modern Remains of 'Visionary Dreariness'
Notes
Bibliography
Index