Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains

Peaks of Venice

William Bainbridge (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

2020
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6298-761-6 (ISBN)

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Guided by the romantic compass of Turner, Byron, and Ruskin, 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 unique geography characterized by untrodden peaks and unfrequented valleys. The discovery of this landscape blended aesthetic, scientific, and cultural values utterly different from those engendered by the bombastic conquests of the Western Alps achieved during the ‘Golden Age of Mountaineering’. Filtered through memories of the Venetian Grand Tour, the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites is revealed through a series of distinct cultural practices that paradigmatically define a ‘Silver Age of Mountaineering’. This book shows how these practices are more ethnographic than imperialistic, more feminine than masculine, more artistic than sportive — rather than racing to summits, the Silver Age is about rambling, rather than conquering peaks, it is about sketching them in an intimate interaction with the Dolomite landscape.

William Bainbridge is a Lecturer in History at the University of Hertfordshire. He received his PhD in Historical Geography from the University of Durham, and has been a fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities. He acts as a consultant on heritage matters internationally, including for UNESCO and ICOMOS.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Reihe/Serie	Landscape and Heritage Studies
Zusatzinfo	37 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Reiseführer ► Europa ► Italien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	94-6298-761-0 / 9462987610
ISBN-13	978-94-6298-761-6 / 9789462987616
Zustand	Neuware