Victorians In The Mountains: Sinking The Sublime

Thảo luận trong 'Học tập' bởi downloadeb, 22/5/2024.

  1. downloadeb

    downloadeb Thành viên nổi tiếng

    Tham gia:
    20/5/2024
    Bài viết:
    5,989
    Đã được thích:
    0
    Điểm thành tích:
    86
    Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/FuODans
    [​IMG]
    Victorians in the Mountains: Sinking the Sublime
    By: Colley, Ann C, Professor
    Publisher:
    Routledge
    Print ISBN: 9781409406334, 1409406334
    eText ISBN: 9781409476269, 140947626X
    Pages: 266
    Format: EPUB
    Available from $ 59.98 USD
    SKU 9781409476269R90
    In her compelling book, Ann C. Colley examines the shift away from the cult of the sublime that characterized the early part of the nineteenth century to the less reverential perspective from which the Victorians regarded mountain landscapes. And what a multifaceted perspective it was, as unprecedented numbers of the Victorian middle and professional classes took themselves off on mountaineering holidays so commonplace that the editors of Punch sarcastically reported that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was to be carpeted.
    In Part One, Colley mines diaries and letters to interrogate how everyday tourists and climbers both responded to and undercut ideas about the sublime, showing how technological advances like the telescope transformed mountains into theatrical spaces where tourists thrilled to the sight of struggling climbers
     

    Xem thêm các chủ đề tạo bởi downloadeb
    Đang tải...


Chia sẻ trang này