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.
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