Topographic memory and Victorian travellers in the Dolomite mountains : peaks of Venice /
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 uni...
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Landscape & heritage series.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. One Matrices of Topographic Memory
- 1. The Alps And The Grand Tour
- The End of the Grand Tour
- Hannibal's Passage
- Romantic Rocks
- 2. The Laboratory Of The Picturesque
- Travelling into Substance
- Geological Riddles
- Picturesque Exploitation
- 3. The Golden Age Of Mountaineering
- Alpine Sensationalism
- Portable Mountains
- The Playground of Europe
- The Alpine Club Orthodoxy
- pt. Two The Invention of the Dolomites
- 4. The Silver Age Of Mountaineering
- The Vogue of Italy
- The Alpine Tour
- Gothic Mountains
- Edwards's Sentimental Voyage
- 5. Titian Country
- The Scotland of Italy
- The Cult of Titian
- The Dolomite Petit Tour
- 6. Picturesque Mountains
- Revelling in the Scenery
- Picturing the Picturesque
- Picturing the Dolomites
- 7. Dolomite Close-Ups
- Prominent Strongholds
- Haptic Mountains
- Dolomite Guides
- 8. King Laurin's Garden
- Debatable Peaks
- The Jewel of Austria's Crown
- Magic Mountains
- Reginald Farrer's Rock Garden.
