Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains : : Peaks of Venice / / William Bainbridge.
Guided by the romantic compass of Byron, Ruskin, and Turner, Victorian travellers to the Dolomites sketched in the mountainous backdrop of Venice a cultural 'Petit Tour' of global significance. As they zigzagged across a debatable land between Italy and Austria, Victorians discovered a uni...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Landscape and Heritage Studies
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Tools for Unravelling Heritage
- Part One. Matrices of Topographic Memory
- 1 The Alps and the Grand Tour
- 2 The Laboratory of the Picturesque
- 3 The Golden Age of Mountaineering
- Part Two. The Invention of the Dolomites
- 4 The Silver Age of Mountaineering
- 5 Titian Country
- 6 Picturesque Mountains
- 7 Dolomite Close-Ups
- 8 King Laurin's Garden
- Epilogue: Messner Country
- Bibliography
- Index