1st Edition
Topographic Memory and Victorian Travellers in the Dolomite Mountains Peaks of Venice
By William Bainbridge
Copyright 2020
310 Pages
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Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
310 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
'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,
