Victorians in the mountains
Subtitle: sinking the sublime
By: Ann C. Colley
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781409406334; 9781409406341
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tourists, climbers, and the sublime; title: Sinking the sublime; title: Spectators, telescopes, and spectacle; title: Ladies on high; title: Literary figures in the Alps; title: John Ruskin: climbing and the vulnerable eye; title: Toothpaste and beadcrumbs: Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Alps; title: Snowbound with Robert Louis Stevenson; title: Coda; title: The Himalaya and the persistence of the sublime.