Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity
- Further Information:
- Note: Dawn Hollis, Jason König.
- Editors:
- Hollis, Dawn
König, Jason - Contents:
- Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote on translations and Order of Chapters Introduction – Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Jason König (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 König (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-centuryNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsNote on translations and Order of Chapters Introduction – Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Jason König (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 König (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) NotesBibliographyIndex. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Subjects:
- Archaeology
Classical history / classical civilisation
Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
History -- Ancient -- General
Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical
Social Science -- Archaeology
Ancient religions & mythologies - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781350162846
1350162841 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781350162822
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