Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.
'The sun rises over France' : post-Napoleonic travellers' Europe -- 'Citizens of the world' : dislocated vision in Alastor -- 'The raptures of travellers' : writing Mont Blanc -- 'Relics of antiquity' : Shelley's classical tour through Italy -- 'The emblem of Italy' : two-fold vision in Prometheus unbound -- 'Empire o'er the unborn world' : Shelley's Hellas