The Giant Mountains – as beautiful as the Alps. The origins of the aesthetic discovery of mountains in the Central European context.

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14230/21:00125475

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2021.1999510" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2021.1999510</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2021.1999510" target="_blank" >10.1080/1755182X.2021.1999510</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Giant Mountains – as beautiful as the Alps. The origins of the aesthetic discovery of mountains in the Central European context.

Original language description

This article examines the aesthetic motivation behind the inception of tourism in the mountains. Aesthetic motives played a key role in the development of tourism in the Alps, which in the eighteenth century became a new, ideal type of landscape and a popular destination for artists and scientists, and later for tourists too. What form did this phenomenon take in a different geographical and cultural context? What were its dynamics and specific features? The article traces these motives by analysing texts on the Giant Mountains (Riesengebirge, Krkonoše, Karkonosze), which became a favourite destination for tourists from the German states and the Austrian Empire. At the time these mountains were compared with the Alps, and this article aims to analyse the parallels and differences between the aesthetic appreciation of the Alps and of the Giant Mountains. Together with scientific interest, aesthetic concerns also played an important role in the inception of tourism here. We can see a reflection of contemporary theories of the Sublime and the Picturesque, as well as the ascent of romanticism. The article works with sources from the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, supplementing them with a summary of subsequent developments in the twentieth century.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60204 - General literature studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Tourism History

ISSN

1755-182X

e-ISSN

1755-1838

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

249-274

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85126042359