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
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Table of Contents:
  • 'The traveller of taste ... the naturalist, and the antiquary': the evolution of Romantic-period mountaineering in Britain
  • 'Curiosity', 'dangerous adventure', and 'the perilous point of honour': three case studies in the invention of mountaineering
  • From 'vast extended prospect' to 'the spectacle of nature': Wordsworth, Keats, and the aesthetics of elevated viewing
  • 'Master[s] of the prospect'?: Wordsworth, Keats, and the revelations of elevation
  • Romanticism on the rocks: feeling and fear in the mountains
  • 'Fearless I rove, exploring, free': the mountaineer and the Romantic imagination
  • 'Active climbers[s] of the hills': women and mountaineering
  • 'I was a bauld craigsman': Walter Scott's rock-climbing heroes
  • Conclusion: John Keats on Everest.

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