Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

05/2021

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Inglês

9781350162822

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Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Note on translations and Order of Chapters Introduction - Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Jason Koenig (University of St Andrews, UK) 1. Gessner's mountain sublime - Dan Hooley (University of Missouri, USA) 2. 'Famous from all antiquity': Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry - Cian Duffy (Lund University, Sweden) 3. The 'authority of the ancients'? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains - Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK) 4. Toward a continuity of Alpinism in antiquity, premodernity, and modernity: Josias Simler's De Alpibus Commentarius (1574) and W. A. B. Coolidge's French translation from 1904 - Sean Ireton (University of Missouri, USA) 5. Mountains and the holy in late antiquity - Douglas Whalin (The Catholic University of America, USA) 6. Erudite retreat: Jerome and Francis in the mountains - Janice Hewlett Koelb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 7. Sublime visions of Virginia: Thomas Jefferson's Romantic mountainscapes - Alley Marie Jordan (University of Edinburgh, UK) 8. Edward Dodwell in the Peloponnese: Mountains and the classical past in nineteenth-century Mediterranean travel writing - Jason Koenig (University of St Andrews, UK) 9. The top story: truth and sublimity in Patrick Brydone's account of his 1770 ascent of Mt Etna - Gareth D. Williams (University of Columbia, USA) 10. Mountains of memory: a phenomenological approach to mountains in fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy - Chloe Bray (University of St Andrews, UK) 11. Mountains, identity, and the legend of King Brennus in the early modern English imaginary - Harriet Archer (University of St Andrews, UK) 12. Upland on Mont Ventoux - Peter Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UK) Notes Bibliography Index
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