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Mountaineering and British Romanticism - The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 (Hardcover)
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Mountaineering and British Romanticism - The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836 (Hardcover)
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This book examines the relationship between Romantic-period writing
and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened
'mountaineering' in 1802. It 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.
It explores how the desire for physical ascent shaped
Romantic-period literary culture and investigates how the figure of
the mountaineer became crucial to creative identities and literary
outputs. Illustrated with 25 images from the period, the book shows
how mountaineering in Britain had its origins in scientific
research, antiquarian travel, and the search for the picturesque
and the sublime. It considers how writers engaged with
mountaineering's power dynamics and investigates issues including
the politics of the summit view (what Wordsworth terms 'visual
sovereignty'), the relationships between different types of
'mountaineers', and the role of women in the developing cultures of
ascent. Placing the work of canonical writers alongside a wide
range of other types of mountaineering literature, this book
reassesses key Romantic-period terms and ideas, such as vision,
insight, elevation, revelation, transcendence, and the sublime. It
opens up new ways of understanding the relationship between
Romantic-period writers and the world that they experienced through
their feet and hands, as well as their eyes, as they moved through
the challenging landscapes of the British mountains.
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