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IN THE “WORLD OF DEATH AND BEAUTY”: RISK, CONTROL, AND JOHN TYNDALL AS ALPINIST

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2013

R. D. Eaton
R. D. Eaton*
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University of Amsterdam
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The association between mountaineering and taking risks is conventional and has been so since mountaineering emerged in Western Europe as a distinct preoccupation during the first half of the nineteenth century. Whatever else mountaineering might be about, it has always at least been about risk. Scholarship on English alpinism in its formative period – the first two decades of the second half of the nineteenth century – has long acknowledged this association. Scholarship has, however, only begun to recognize the complex nature of risk in early English alpinism.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , March 2013 , pp. 55 - 73
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013

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