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 Hollis -- Toward a continuity of Alpinism in antiquity, premodernity, and modernity : Josias Simler's De Alpibus commentarius (1574) and W.A.B. Coolidge's French translation from 1904 / Sean Ireton.
| Author: Dawn Hollis, Anna Collar, Jason Kã¶Nig, Esther Eidinow, Katharina Lorenz
| Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
| Publication Date: May 06, 2021
| Number of Pages: 272 pages
| Language: English
| Binding: Hardcover
| ISBN-10: 1350162825
| ISBN-13: 9781350162822
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Dawn Hollis, Anna Collar, Jason Kã¶Nig, Esther Eidinow, Katharina Lorenz