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7 - Alpine Sublimes

from Part II - Romantic Sublimes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2023

Cian Duffy
Affiliation:
Lunds Universitet, Sweden
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The Alpine sublime contributed to the Romantic vogue for mountains, but also to the development of Romantic aesthetics and modern subjectivity. This chapter examines a variety of representations of the Alps, including scientific and aesthetic treatises, poems, prose fiction, and painting, as well as more ephemeral documents such as travel journals and visitors’ books. Authors addressed include Rousseau, Ramond, the Duchess of Devonshire, Wordsworth, the Shelleys, Byron, and Ruskin. It argues that the Alpine sublime served as an expression of divine power, human autonomy, and social distinction. Proceeding chronologically, the chapter begins with the Grand Tour, with its scientific, aesthetic, and mythical representations of the Alps, then looks at how the French Revolution appropriated the Alpine sublime, at ways in which Romantic writers responded by making it a private experience, and finally at how tourism helped generalize this modern attitude to mountains.

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Print publication year: 2023

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  • Alpine Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.010
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  • Alpine Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.010
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  • Alpine Sublimes
  • Edited by Cian Duffy, Lunds Universitet, Sweden
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime
  • Online publication: 06 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026963.010
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