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- W2485081211 abstract "One of the most surprisingly influential Romantic-period texts for the nineteenth-century imagining of Switzerland was the anonymous children’s book The Peasants of Chamouni, published in 1823. In this now little-known work, a mother tells her children the story of what is generally considered the first major mountaineering disaster, when an avalanche on Mont Blanc killed three guides in 1820. The text gained its influence through its formative effect on the writer and showman Albert Smith, who is often credited with heightening the popularity of the ‘Swiss’ Alps and Alpine climbing in mid-Victorian Britain (Hansen; Colley 78–91). Smith, who climbed Mont Blanc in 1851, devised a spectacular and staggeringly successful public lecture, ‘The Ascent of Mont Blanc’, which he performed over two thousand times between 1852 and 1858 to an audience of hundreds of thousands. In the bestselling book that accompanied his lecture, The Story of Mont Blanc, Smith described the early inspiration for his fascination with the highest mountain in western Europe:Twenty-seven years ago — when children’s books were rare presents, and were so prized, and read, and read again, until the very position of the paragraphs was known by heart — I had a little volume given to me at the Soho bazaar, called ‘The Peasants of Chamouni’, which told, in a very truthful manner, the sad story of Dr. Hamel’s fatal attempt to reach the summit of Mont Blanc in 1820 […]My notions of the Alps at that time were very limited […] The little book, which I have said had a great air of truth about it, made a deep impression on me: I do not think that ‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ stood in higher favour and this impression lasted from year to year. (Smith 1–2)" @default.
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- W2485081211 title "A ‘Melancholy Occurrence’ in the Alps" @default.
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