‘With the invention of the sublime, Romantic poets flipped light into darkness, reason into fear, and transformed the perception of England’s Lake District from a spectacle of “holy terror” to a tourist destination. Today, caravaners who continue down the A66 road to the Cumbrian coast will find a post-industrial landscape whose cultural inheritance is buried or repressed — that is, subliminal.’
Newly published in Places journal, my essay on the A66 road in Cumbria:
https://placesjournal.org/article/through-mountains-to-the-sea/
