Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity

Dawn Hollis is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews, UK, working with Jason König on a Leverhulme Trust research project entitled ‘Mountains in Ancient Literature and their Postclassical Reception’. Her work on the history of mountains has appeared in Alpinist and Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment. Jason König is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has published widely on the Greek literature of the Roman empire. He is currently working on a book on mountains in the literature and culture of the ancient Mediterranean.

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Introduction – Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK) and Jason König (University of St Andrews, UK)

1. Gessner’s mountain sublime – Dan Hooley (University of Missouri, USA)
2. ‘Famous from all antiquity’: Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry – Cian Duffy (Lund University, Sweden)
3. The ‘authority of the ancients’? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains – Dawn Hollis (University of St Andrews, UK)
4. Toward a continuity of Alpinism in antiquity, premodernity, and modernity: Josias Simler’s De Alpibus Commentarius (1574) and W. A. B. Coolidge’s French translation from 1904 – Sean Ireton (University of Missouri, USA)
5. Mountains and the holy in late antiquity – Douglas Whalin (The Catholic University of America, USA)
6. Erudite retreat: Jerome and Francis in the mountains – Janice Hewlett Koelb (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
7. Sublime visions of Virginia: Thomas Jefferson’s Romantic mountainscapes – Alley Marie Jordan (University of Edinburgh, UK)
8. Edward Dodwell in the Peloponnese: Mountains and the classical past in nineteenth-century Mediterranean travel writing – Jason König (University of St Andrews, UK)
9. The top story: truth and sublimity in Patrick Brydone’s account of his 1770 ascent of Mt Etna – Gareth D. Williams (University of Columbia, USA)
10. Mountains of memory: a phenomenological approach to mountains in fifth-century BCE Greek tragedy – Chloe Bray (University of St Andrews, UK)
11. Mountains, identity, and the legend of King Brennus in the early modern English imaginary – Harriet Archer (University of St Andrews, UK)
12. Upland on Mont Ventoux – Peter Hansen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, UK)

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