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About the Author
Simon Bainbridge is Professor of Romantic Studies at the University of Lancaster. He has previously worked at the Universities of York, Manchester, and Keele. He is a specialist in the literature of the Romantic period, particularly in relation to its historical context. He is the author of the monographs Napoleon and English Romanticism (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and British Poetry and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Oxford University Press, 2003) and is the editor of Romanticism: A Sourcebook (Palgrave, 2008). He has published numerous essays on Romantic-period literature. He has served as President of the British Association for Romantic Studies and is currently a Trustee of the Wordsworth Trust.
Reviews
This is a genuinely original insight. It is one of many such pleasures in this illuminating study of the literary culture of mountaineering in its formative years. Bainbridge shows how these early summiteers relished the novel perspectives that an elevated viewpoint gave them on the landscape spread out below; in similar fashion, his lucid, well-researched book affords surprising new angles on writers and texts that we are used to seeing through a different critical lens. * Robin Jarvis, University of the West of England, Modern Language Review *
This book furthers our understanding of Romantic mountaineering by showing us the sheer variety of mountain experiences-a compendium of sites of fascination. Simon Bainbridge's book will serve as the necessary point of departure for any student or scholar interested in the literature of Romantic mountaineering. * Alan Vardy, The Review of English Studies *
informative and original...a major addition to the considerable secondary literature on romanticism... * Nigel Leask, BARS Bulletin and Review *
Bainbridge's case study of Dorothy Wordsworth's evolution as a mountaineering writer in this book is one of its many revelations that will particularly inform those interested in ecofeminism, corporality, material ecocriticism, animism and re-enchantment. * Terry Gifford, Green Papers *
Book Information
ISBN 9780198857891
Author Simon Bainbridge
Format Hardback
Page Count 320
Imprint Oxford University Press
Publisher Oxford University Press
Weight(grams) 638g
Dimensions(mm) 240mm * 164mm * 22mm