Mountaineering and British Romanticism : the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836

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Label

Mountaineering and British Romanticism : the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836

Title remainder

the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836

Statement of responsibility

Simon Bainbridge

Creator

• Bainbridge, Simon, 1965-

Contributor

• Oxford University Press

Author

• Bainbridge, Simon, 1965-

Publisher

• Oxford University Press

Subject

• English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• Mountaineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
• Mountaineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
• Mountaineering in literature
• Romanticism -- Great Britain
• Electronic resources
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism

Language

eng

Summary

Examining the relationship between Romantic-period writing and the activity that Samuel Taylor Coleridge christened 'mountaineering' in 1802, Simon Bainbridge argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised. He 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, and 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

Member of

• Oxford scholarship online

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Intended audience

Specialized

LC call number

PR457

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online

Target audience

specialized