Mountaineering and British Romanticism : the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836

Mountaineering and British Romanticism : the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836 / Simon Bainbridge.

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�...

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Main Author: Bainbridge, Simon, 1965- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Mountaineering in literature.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Mountaineering > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Mountaineering > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Poetry.
Renaissance.
19th Century.
Modern.
English literature
Mountaineering
Mountaineering in literature
Romanticism
Great Britain
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Click for online access
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192599759
0192599755
9780191890468
0191890464
9780192599766
0192599763
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on July 9, 2020).

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