Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity

Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity / edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König.

"Throughout the longue durée of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new...

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Other Authors: Hollis, Dawn (Editor), König, Jason (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Series:Ancient environments.
Subjects:
Mountains in literature.
Literature, Modern > Classical influences.
Civilization, Modern > Ancient influences.
Mountains > Social aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Dawn Hollis and Jason König
  • Gessner's mountain sublime / Dan Hooley
  • 'Famous from all antiquity' : Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry / Cian Duffy
  • The 'authority of the ancients'? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains / Dawn Hollis
  • Toward a continuity of Alpinism in antiquity, premodernity, and modernity : Josias Simler's De Alpibus commentarius (1574) and W.A.B. Coolidge's French translation from 1904 / Sean Ireton
  • Mountains and the holy in late antiquity / Douglas Whalin
  • Erudite retreat : Jerome and Francis in the mountains / Janice Hewlett Koelb
  • Sublime visions of Virginia : Thomas Jefferson's Romantic mountainscapes / Alley Marie Jordan
  • Edward Dodwell in the Peloponnese : mountains and the classical past in nineteenth-century Mediterranean travel writing / Jason König
  • The top story : truth and sublimity in Patrick Brydone's account of his 1770 ascent of Mt. Etna / Gareth D. Williams
  • Mountains of memory : a phenomenological approach to mountains in fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy / Chloe Bray
  • Mountains, identity, and the legend of King Brennus in the early modern English imaginary / Harriet Archer
  • Upland on Mont Ventoux / Peter Hansen.

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