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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Simon Bainbridge is Professor of Romantic Studies at the University of Lancaster. He has previously worked at the Universities of York, Manchester, and Keele. He is a specialist in the literature of the Romantic period, particularly in relation to its historical context. He is the author of the monographs Napoleon and English Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Oxford University Press, 2003) and is the editor of Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave, 2008). He has published numerous essays on Romantic-period literature. He has served as President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and is currently a Trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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