Patrick Vincent (Switzerland Universite de Neuchatel)

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country during the Romantic period, this book shows how its idealized republican landscape enabled contemporaries to compare the Alps with Britain and to imagine a liberal alternative to French liberty.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781009210294
• ISBN-10: 1009210297
• Artikelnr.: 64497451

Autorenporträt

Patrick Vincent is the author of The Romantic Poetess: European Culture, Politics and Gender, 1820¿1840 (2004), and has edited or co-edited several books, including an edition of Helen Maria Williams' A Tour in Switzerland (2011), Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland: New Prospects (2015) and The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature (forthcoming 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Not / a pastoral fable': republicanism, liberalism, and the Swiss myth
2. Comparative republicanisms: the Swiss myth in eighteenth-century Britain
3. Revising republicanism: revolutionary-period travel writing on Switzerland
4. Switzerland no more: 1798 and the romantic imagination
5. Switzerland in miniature: Wordsworth's 'visionary mountain republic'
6. Restoration republicanism: the Swiss myth after 1815
Coda: John Ruskin's Switzerland
Notes
Bibliography
Index.