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T1 A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains: An Excursion to Empowerment and Environmentalism
T2 A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains: Una excursion al empoderamiento y la preocupación por la naturaleza
A1 Ruiz de Alegría, Iratxe
K1 Isabella Bird
K1 Mountain
K1 Environmentalism
K1 Empowerment
K1 Innovative Manifesto
AB This article proposes a reading of Isabella Bird’s travelogue A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Moun-tains (1879) through the lens of Environmental Studies by focusing on the material andmetaphorical uses of nature, scrutinizing the recurrent trope of the mountain, and payingattention to the interaction between the intrepid traveller and nature. While the adventurerdeals with the difficulties of the transatlantic pilgrimage, Bird also goes beyond the tradi-tional hymn to the beauty of the landscape in order to condemn the degradation of nature.Arguably, the most valuable insights that this text has to offer beyond empowering womenderive precisely from the author’s concern for nature. Bird not only composes an ode to themountainous scenery in prose, but also an innovative manifesto, where a number of detri-mental consequences of the infamous environmental crises are anticipated well in advance.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37130
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37130
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 21-may-2024