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The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain = materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain/ by Alan McNee.
Reminder of title:	materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime /
Author:	McNee, Alan.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	ix, 257 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Mountaineering - History - 19th century. -
Subject:	Great Britain - Politics and government - 1997- -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33440-0
ISBN:	9783319334400

The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britain = materiality, modernity, and the haptic sublime /
McNee, Alan.

The new mountaineer in late Victorian Britainmateriality, modernity, and the haptic sublime /[electronic resource] :by Alan McNee. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - ix, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture. - Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture..

Introduction -- 1. The Rise of the New Mountaineer -- 2. Resisting the New Mountaineer -- 3. The Climbing Body -- 4. The Haptic Sublime -- 5. 'Trippers' and the New Mountain Landscape -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book is about the rise of a new ethos in British mountaineering during the late nineteenth century. It traces how British attitudes to mountains were transformed by developments both within the new sport of mountaineering and in the wider fin-de-siecle culture. The emergence of the new genre of mountaineering literature, which helped to create a self-conscious community of climbers with broadly shared values, coincided with a range of cultural and scientific trends that also influenced the direction of mountaineering. The author discusses the growing preoccupation with the physical basis of aesthetic sensations, and with physicality and materiality in general; the new interest in the physiology of effort and fatigue; and the characteristically Victorian drive to enumerate, codify, and classify. Examining a wide range of texts, from memoirs and climbing club journals to hotel visitors' books, he argues that the figure known as the 'New Mountaineer' was seen to embody a distinctly modern approach to mountain climbing and mountain aesthetics.

ISBN: 9783319334400

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-33440-0doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1117500
Mountaineering
--History--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

556459
Great Britain
--Politics and government--1997-

LC Class. No.: GV199.89 / .M275 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 796.522

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