Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity / edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König.
Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity / edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König.
Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity / edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König.
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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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G 2021/1045
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English
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Physical content
x, 255 pages : illustrations (black and white), black and white map ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction / Dawn Hollis and Jason König -- Gessner's mountain sublime / Dan Hooley -- 'Famous from all antiquity' : Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry / Cian Duffy -- The 'authority of the ancients'? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains / Dawn Holli...
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Publisher
London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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England
Date Published
2021.
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Summary
"Throughout the longue durée of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements w...
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Mountain dialogues from antiquity to modernity / edited by Dawn Hollis and Jason König.
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Ancient environments
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index.
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G 2021/1045
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74VKazKZLo6d
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ISBN
1350162825
9781350162822
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809.9332143
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991024398319102626
