Mountaineering and British Romanticism

Mountaineering and British Romanticism

The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836

Oxford University Press

04/2020

320

Dura

Inglês

9780198857891

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction 1: 'The traveller of taste . . . the naturalist, and the antiquary': The Evolution of Romantic-period Mountaineering in Britain 2: 'Curiosity', 'Dangerous Adventure', and 'the Perilous Point of Honour': Three Case Studies in the Invention of Mountaineering 3: From 'Vast Extended Prospect' to 'The Spectacle of Nature': Wordsworth, Keats, and the Aesthetics of Elevated Viewing 4: Master[s] of the Prospect'?: Wordsworth, Keats, and the Revelations of Elevation 5: Romanticism on the Rocks: Feeling and Fear in the Mountains 6: Fearless I rove, exploring, free': The Mountaineer and the Romantic Imagination 7: Active Climber[s] of the Hills': Women and Mountaineering 8: 'I was a bauld craigsman': Walter Scott's Rock-Climbing Heroes Conclusion: John Keats on Everest