Alan Mcnee: 1 book
The New Mountaineer in Late Victorian Britain
Materiality, Modernity, and the Haptic Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
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...
