Literature and the Mountains: A Bibliography The following is a very incomplete, rudimentary, occasionally annotated bibliography of literature and/on the mountains. I have loosely organized it first by genre, then by region, then loosely by date. I certainly haven’t read all these, and so cannot attest to their qual- ity, but have tried to limit the list somewhat to those works that hold either special literary or historical significance. This list owes particular debt to Professor Thomas Moran, Middlebury College. This list has emerged somewhat haphazardly, rather than by design. I welcome submis- sions for further additions and annotations. Please contact me at:
[email protected] Critical works on mountains and mountain culture Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant’s writings on the sublime Mountain Gloom, Mountain Glory (Marjorie Hope Nicholson) Mountains of the Mind (Robert MacFarlane) Nature's Altars: Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism (Susan Schrepfer) Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need (Ian Marshall) The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (Ramachandra Guha) "Rock," from Landscape and Memory (Simon Schama) (1995) The Mountain World: A Literary Journey (Gregory McNamee, ed.) (2000) “’On the Raggedy Edge of Risk’: Articulations on Race and Nature After Biology”(Bruce Braun), in Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference (Donald Moore, et al., eds) The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (Allison Deming and Lauret Savoy, eds) – about minorities and nature broadly, but some essays on mountains Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape of the American West (Rebecca Solnit) Reading the Mountains of Home (John Elder) Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers and Nature at Risk (Joseph Taylor) (2010) Mountaineering Literature Himalayas The Fight for Everest (E.F.