Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains
Peaks of Venice
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 1 December 2025
- ISBN 9781041189633
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages310 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
This work reframes the Victorian encounter with the Dolomites through the lens of Grand Tour memories, revealing a distinctive Silver Age of Mountaineering defined by ethnographic rather than imperialistic approaches.
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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.
'In its discussion of the representation of a specific and previously sparsely considered region, Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains collates a broad range of contextual material and an overview of key debates influencing the understanding of the region by British audiences.''-Kathryn Walchester, Victorian Studies , Vol. 65, N. 1, Autumn 2022,
Table of Contents:
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.
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