The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain : materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime /: materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alan McNee.
• Authors: McNee, Alan
• Contents: The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; Victorian Mountaineering Historicized; The Literature of Mountaineering; Complicating the New Mountaineer; Notes; 2 The Rise of the New Mountaineer; Introduction; Manliness and Modernity; 'Special Knowledge': The Importance of Expertise; The New Material Culture: Equipment and Training; Writing the New Mountaineer: The Birth of a Genre; Notes; 3 Resisting the New Mountaineer; Introduction; The New Mountaineer and His critics; The Romantic Backlash; Re-Writing Mountaineering History Defending the New EthosLeslie Stephen's 'Sense of Superlative Sublimity'; Notes; 4 The Climbing Body; Introduction; The Human Engine; 'Giving Tactile Values to Retinal Impressions'; Bodily Pleasures; The Inadequacy of Language; Notes; 5 The Haptic Sublime; Introduction; A New Type of Subjectivity; The Return of the Sublime; Embodied Experience and 'Cold Stony Reality'; Danger and Its Rewards; The Authority of Physical Contact; Learning from 'Disappointment and Fatigue'; Notes; 6 'Trippers' and the New Mountain Landscape; Introduction; 'Tormented by Cockneys'; The New Mountain Landscape Writing Out the TouristsMaintaining Exclusivity; Notes; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Primary Texts; Archive Material; Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines; Books; Secondary Texts; Theses; Journals, Newspapers, and Magazines; Books; Index
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 796.5220941; Literature; Mountaineering -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Mountaineering in literature; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; GAMES / Gambling / Sports; SPORTS & RECREATION / Business Aspects; SPORTS & RECREATION / Essays; SPORTS & RECREATION / History; SPORTS & RECREATION / Reference; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Sports; Civilization; English literature; Mountaineering; Mountaineering in literature; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; History -- Europe -- Great Britain; Literature: history & criticism; British & Irish history; Literature, Modern-19th century; British literature; Great Britain-History; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century; Great Britain; Electronic books; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319334400; 3319334409
• Related ISBNs: 9783319334394; 3319334395
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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