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The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain: Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
Alan McNee
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Description for The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain: Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 257 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF; JFC; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siecle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; ... Read more
This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siecle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
Number of Pages
257
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319334394
SKU
V9783319334394
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About Alan McNee
Alan McNee is a former journalist. He completed his PhD at Birkbeck, University of London in 2013. His first book was a biography of the Victorian journalist, showman, and traveller, Albert Smith.
Reviews for The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain: Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
McNee's contribution to the field of sport literature brings closer attention to the ongoing and shifting nature of the sublime and how mountains were known by mountaineers as well as in climbing literature. Researchers will find reading for mountaineering and physical culture studies and related Victorian British literature and tourism ... the book appeals to readers with interests in aesthetics, ... Read more