Time to Eat the Dogs

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Mountains, Writers, and Travelers in the 18th-Century Alps

January 26, 2025 at 11:57 am · Filed under Expeditions

View Drawn at Mouri Near Bern
Johann Ludwig Aberli, 1785

Célia Abele talks about Wolfgang von Goethe, the French writer Chateaubriand, and the German physicist Georg Lichtenberg. These writers became fascinated in the Alps and volcanoes such as Vesuvius. Abele is an assistant professor of French at Boston College. She’s the author of “Mountain Time: Tense Futures and Present Pasts in the Alps and Vesuvius around 1800.”

Célia Abele

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