Ann C. Colley

Victorians in the Mountains (eBook, PDF)

Sinking the Sublime

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ann C. Colley examines archival accounts of tourists and female climbers, technological advances, and theatrical spectacle to trace the evolution of the sublime over the course of the nineteenth century. Chapters on John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson, whose writings about the Alps reflect their feelings about their Romantic heritage, offer insight into their ideas about perception, metaphor, and literary style.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317001997
• Artikelnr.: 44815612

Autorenporträt

Ann C. Colley is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University College of New York at Buffalo. She has published numerous articles and books, including Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination, Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture, The Search for Synthesis in Literature and Art: The Paradox of Space, Edward Lear and the Critics, and Tennyson and Madness.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Part I Tourists, Climbers, and the Sublime: Sinking the sublime
Spectators, telescopes, and spectacle
Ladies on high. Part II Literary Figures in the Alps: John Ruskin: climbing and the vulnerable eye
Toothpowder and breadcrumbs: Gerald Manley Hopkins in the Alps
Snowbound with Robert Louis Stevenson. Part III Coda: The Himalaya and the persistence of the sublime
Bibliography
Index.

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Contents: Introduction; Part I Tourists, Climbers, and the Sublime: Sinking the sublime; Spectators, telescopes, and spectacle; Ladies on high. Part II Literary Figures in the Alps: John Ruskin: climbing and the vulnerable eye; Toothpowder and breadcrumbs: Gerald Manley Hopkins in the Alps; Snowbound with Robert Louis Stevenson. Part III Coda: The Himalaya and the persistence of the sublime; Bibliography; Index.

Rezensionen

"Insightful and informative, Victorians in the Mountains is an impressively researched and delightfully written book. It will be of interest not only to scholars of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British literature and culture, but also to those interested in the history of mountain climbing."

- Linda M. Austin, Oklahoma State University, USA

"Impressively original and comprehensive. This account of the role that mountains played in the British imagination throughout the Victorian period challenges many preconceptions, showing how an invasion of climbers and tourists transformed Romantic ideas of the sublime. Spirited, irreverent and always well-informed, Colley sheds new light on a complex and important topic."

- Dinah Birch, University of Liverpool, UK

"Having challenged some common assumptions about the Victorians and mountains in general [...] Colley focuses on the mountain experiences of three important literary figures, devoting one chapter each to John Ruskin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Among its many insights, Colley's study helps us to grasp from a new angle the physical nature of understanding for these three figures. She adds to current debates on all three by offering a nuanced interpretation of how seeing and being within the mountain landscapes affected the writing of each... [A] delightful yet scholarly study..."

- Modern Language Review

"... Recommended.

- Choice

"... Colley is to be applauded for providing an insight into rich and neglected archives which shed light not only on mountaineering, but the philosophical, ideological and patriotic notions through which it is constituted and understood."

- Studies in Travel Writing

"Colley expertly weaves an abundance of primary and scholarly sources into her own writing. Thus, readers will find the chapters helpful in examining particulars of Victorian culture and well-known writers of the time."

- Gregg W. Heitschmidt, Surry Community College