This volume argues that mountaineering developed as a pursuit in Britain during the Romantic era, earlier than is generally recognised, and shows how writers including William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Walter Scott were central to the activity's evolution. Bainbridge's case study of Dorothy Wordsworth's evolution as a mountaineering writer in this book is one of its many revelations that will particularly inform those interested in ecofeminism, corporality, material ecocriticism, animism and re-enchantment.