Mountaineering and British romanticism : the literary cultures of climbing, 1770-1836 / Simon Bainbridge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bainbridge, Simon, 1965- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259976-3

0-19-189046-4

0-19-259975-5