Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Hollis, Dawn; Koenig, Professor Jason

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

11/2022

272

Mole

Inglês

9781350194106

15 a 20 dias

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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)

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