Author: Terry P. Abraham
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are but a few of the words that early British travelers used to describe the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain landscape and surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of travelers' tales, these British tourists, explorers, adventurers, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants all looked for ways to describe and illustrate places they visited--in this instance, the vast and strange wilderness landscape of the North America's Rocky Mountains. Using both published and unpublished resources, Terry Abraham weaves these observations, their aesthetic, and their "Britishness" into a refreshing and unique view of an all-but-vanished "West." In their efforts to make the Rocky Mountain West real to a readership on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, these visitors from two centuries past encouraged a growing realization that this part of the North American landscape was unique, a special part of the world's natural heritage. Many also tried to describe the changes that were being visited on the Rockies by onrushing progress. They were among the first who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape; in fact, they demonstrated what might be called "environmental pre-awareness." Twenty-first century readers will discover surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travelers from the nineteenth.
Mountains So Sublime
Author: Terry P. Abraham
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are but a few of the words that early British travelers used to describe the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain landscape and surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of travelers' tales, these British tourists, explorers, adventurers, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants all looked for ways to describe and illustrate places they visited--in this instance, the vast and strange wilderness landscape of the North America's Rocky Mountains. Using both published and unpublished resources, Terry Abraham weaves these observations, their aesthetic, and their "Britishness" into a refreshing and unique view of an all-but-vanished "West." In their efforts to make the Rocky Mountain West real to a readership on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, these visitors from two centuries past encouraged a growing realization that this part of the North American landscape was unique, a special part of the world's natural heritage. Many also tried to describe the changes that were being visited on the Rockies by onrushing progress. They were among the first who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape; in fact, they demonstrated what might be called "environmental pre-awareness." Twenty-first century readers will discover surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travelers from the nineteenth.
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
"Picturesque," "immense," "fantastic," and "sublime" are but a few of the words that early British travelers used to describe the nineteenth-century Rocky Mountain landscape and surrounding terrain. As part of a long tradition of travelers' tales, these British tourists, explorers, adventurers, writers, scientists, artists, missionaries, and merchants all looked for ways to describe and illustrate places they visited--in this instance, the vast and strange wilderness landscape of the North America's Rocky Mountains. Using both published and unpublished resources, Terry Abraham weaves these observations, their aesthetic, and their "Britishness" into a refreshing and unique view of an all-but-vanished "West." In their efforts to make the Rocky Mountain West real to a readership on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, these visitors from two centuries past encouraged a growing realization that this part of the North American landscape was unique, a special part of the world's natural heritage. Many also tried to describe the changes that were being visited on the Rockies by onrushing progress. They were among the first who cautioned against excessive human encroachment on the landscape; in fact, they demonstrated what might be called "environmental pre-awareness." Twenty-first century readers will discover surprising parallels between modern environmental and conservation issues and the concerns expressed by these early travelers from the nineteenth.
Mountains So Sublime
Author: Terry P. Abraham
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists.
Publisher: Calgary : University of Calgary Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Features description of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists.
The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
Author: Cian Duffy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515915
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.
The History of Warren
Author: William Little
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The History of the White Mountains
Author: Lucy Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : White Mountains (N.H. and Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The History of the White Mountains, from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket
Author: Lucy Howe Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : White Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : White Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Dr. Grant and the Mountain Nestorians
Author: Thomas Laurie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church of the East members
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church of the East members
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Church and Modern Society
Author: John Ireland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian sociology
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The Choir Invisible and Other Sermons
Author: John White Chadwick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Beloit College Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description