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  1. Mountaineering and British Romanticism
    The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836
    Erschienen: 2020
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford ; ProQuest, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John... mehr

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    This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution.

     

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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780192599759
    RVK Klassifikation: HL 1101
    Schlagworte: Englisch; Literatur; Romantik; Bergsteigen <Motiv>; Romanticism-Great Britain
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (319 pages)
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  2. Mountaineering and British Romanticism
    The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836
    Erschienen: 2020; ©2020
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press USA - OSO, Oxford

    This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John... mehr

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    This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. Cover -- Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing 1770-1836 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The Creation of 'Mountaineering' and the Transformation of the 'Mountaineer' -- Romantic Mountaineers -- Relocating the Origins of British Mountaineering -- On 'Romanticism' and 'Mountaineering' -- 1: 'The traveller of taste, . . . the naturalist, and the antiquary': The Evolution of Romantic-Period Mountaineering in Britain -- Scientific Mountaineering -- Scientific Mountaineering in the Alps -- The Antiquarian Mountaineer: Thomas Pennant -- 'The Traveller of Taste': Mountain Climbing on the Picturesque Tour -- 2: 'Curiosity', 'dangerous adventure', and 'the perilous point of honour': Three Case Studies in the Invention of Mountaineering -- Joseph Budworth, 'curious' Climber -- Reverend William Bingley's 'dangerous adventure' -- John MacCulloch and Mountaineering 'achievement' -- 3: From 'vast extended prospect 'to 'the spectacle of nature': Wordsworth, Keats, and the Aesthetics of Elevated Viewing -- Climbing in Search of the Elevated 'prospect' -- 'A new scene of astonishment': The shock of the view -- 'The most sublime prospect to be met with': Encountering the Mountain Top Sublime -- Witnessing 'the spectacle of nature' -- 'A gratification of no common kind': The aesthetics of 'the veiling atmosphere' -- 4: 'Master[s] of the prospect'?: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Revelations of Elevation -- Mountain Ascent as The Prelude and 'Prologue' to the Literary Life -- Bird's-Eye Views and Cloud Stations: New Ways of Seeing in the Mountains -- 'Placed . . . on a pinnacle of the world': The Elevated Climber and the World Below -- 'Like a map': Elevation and the Transformation of Landscape and Viewer.

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780192599759
    Schlagworte: Romanticism-Great Britain; Electronic books
    Umfang: 1 online resource (319 pages)
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