EAN: 9783319334394

THE NEW MOUNTAINEER IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN -...

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.

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