Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Hollis, Dawn
, [HerausgeberIn]
König, Jason , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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| Umfang/Format: |
x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Ancient environments.
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| Parallelausgabe: |
Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781350162839 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction /
- Dawn Hollis and Jason König
- Gessner's mountain sublime /
- Dan Hooley
- 'Famous from all antiquity' : Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry /
- Cian Duffy
- The 'authority of the ancients'? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains /
- Dawn Hollis
- 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
- Mountains and the holy in late antiquity /
- Douglas Whalin
- Erudite retreat : Jerome and Francis in the mountains /
- Janice Hewlett Koelb
- Sublime visions of Virginia : Thomas Jefferson's Romantic mountainscapes /
- Alley Marie Jordan
- Edward Dodwell in the Peloponnese : mountains and the classical past in nineteenth-century Mediterranean travel writing /
- Jason König
- The top story : truth and sublimity in Patrick Brydone's account of his 1770 ascent of Mt. Etna /
- Gareth D. Williams
- Mountains of memory : a phenomenological approach to mountains in fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy /
- Chloe Bray
- Mountains, identity, and the legend of King Brennus in the early modern English imaginary /
- Harriet Archer
- Upland on Mont Ventoux /
- Peter Hansen.
