03436nam 22005295 450 991025522790332120200930213518.03-319-33440-910.1007/978-3-319-33440-0(CKB)3710000001177634(MiAaPQ)EBC4844294(DE-He213)978-3-319-33440-0(EXLCZ)99371000000117763420170420d2016 u| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime /by Alan McNee1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (257 pages) illustrationsPalgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,2634-64943-319-33439-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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-siècle 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. .Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture,2634-6494Literature, Modern—19th centuryBritish literatureGreat Britain—HistoryNineteenth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/821000British and Irish Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/833000History of Britain and Irelandhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020Literature, Modern—19th century.British literature.Great Britain—History.Nineteenth-Century Literature.British and Irish Literature.History of Britain and Ireland.796.522McNee Alanauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1064505BOOK9910255227903321The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain2538647UNINA