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SUMMARY:Victorian Tourists and Climbers in the Alps: Sinking the Sublime -
  Ann C. Colley\, SUNY Distinguished Professor\, Department of English. SUN
 Y College at Buffalo\, Visiting Fellow\, Wolfson College
DTSTART:20110511T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the role that mountains played in the Briti
 sh imagination within the Victorian period. I shall concentrate on the inv
 asion of British tourists and climbers in the Alps during the second half 
 of the nineteenth century. In this talk I hope to explain how these indivi
 duals transformed or compromised/undercut (“sank”) the Romantic ideas 
 of the sublime previously expressed in the poetry of Wordsworth\, Coleridg
 e\, and Shelley. To demonstrate and explore this shift away from the cult 
 of the sublime\, I look at diaries written by these tourists\, published a
 ccounts of their travels and climbs\, as well as satirical drawings of the
  period. For instance\, one of the editors of Punch sarcastically reported
  that the route to the summit of Mont Blanc was about to be carpeted! The 
 talk will be illustrated with images from these nineteenth-century texts.\
 nThis talk is based upon a chapter in my recent book Victorians in the Mou
 ntains: Sinking the Sublime. \n
LOCATION:Combination Room\, Wolfson College
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