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  1. Victorians in the mountains
    sinking the sublime
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    HL 1101 K78 C6
    No inter-library loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1138272558; 9781138272552; 9781409406334; 9781409406341; 1409106330; 9781409106333; 1409106349; 1409406342; 9781409106340
    RVK Categories: HL 1101
    Edition: First issued in paperback
    Subjects: Nature in literature; Mountaineering in literature; Technological innovations; English literature; Aestheticism (Literature); Sublime, The, in literature; Nationalism and literature; Nature in literature; Mountaineering in literature
    Other subjects: Ruskin, John (1819-1900); Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844-1889); Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)
    Scope: IX, 253 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Tourists, climbers, and the sublime -- Sinking the sublime -- Spectators, telescopes, and spectacle -- Ladies on high -- Literary figures in the Alps -- John Ruskin: climbing and the vulnerable eye -- Toothpaste and beadcrumbs: Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Alps -- Snowbound with Robert Louis Stevenson -- Coda -- The Himalaya and the persistence of the sublime.