Catalogue of Books

Catalogue of Books
Author: Wigan (England). Free Public Library. Reference Dept
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Total Pages: 352
Release: 1916
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Mountaineering and British Romanticism

Mountaineering and British Romanticism
Author: Simon Bainbridge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0198857896

This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution.