A study of the ways landscape was perceived in nineteenth-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, spectacular public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated. Michael Charlesworth is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas-Austin, USA. He is an authority on landscape and the history of gardens, on photography until 1918.