Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland : new prospects /: new prospects. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Angela Esterhammer, Professor of English, University of Toronto, Canada ; Diane Piccitto, Lecturer, Plymouth University, UK and Patrick Vincent, Professor of English, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Editors: Esterhammer, Angela; Piccitto, Diane; Vincent, Patrick H
• Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors 1.Introduction; Patrick Vincent, Diane Piccitto, and Angela Esterhammer2.Romantic Education, Concealment and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseau's Emile and Frances Brooke's Julia Mandeville; Enit K. Steiner3.Romantic Suicide, Contagion, and Rousseau's Julie;Michelle Faubert4.Seeing Jean-Jacques' Nature: Rousseau's Call for a Botanist Reader; Rachel Corkle5.Rousseau's Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period; Wendy C. Nielsen6.Rousseau on the Tourist Trail; Nicola J. Watson7.James Boswell and Rousseau in Môtiers: Re-inscribing Childhood and Its (Auto)biographical Prospects; Gordon Turnbull8.Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal of a Tour on the Continent; Pamela Buck9.Visionary Republics: Virtual Representations of Switzerland and Wordsworth's Lake District; Patrick Vincent10.A 'Melancholy Occurrence' in the Alps: Switzerland, Mont Blanc, and an Early Critique of Mountaineering; Simon Bainbridge11.Manfred, Freedom, and the Swiss Alps: The Transformation of the Byronic Hero; Diane Piccitto12.Legendary Late-Romantic Switzerlands: Baillie, Polidori, Hemans, and Scott; Angela Esterhammer13.Rodolphe Töpffer's Earliest Comic Strips and The Tools of the Picturesque: Teaching the Art of Perception; Kirstyn Leuner Index.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (242 pages), (6 illustrations)
• Subjects: 848/.509; Essays; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; PHILOSOPHY / Social; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays; Social; General; European/General; Literary essays; Social & political philosophy; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Romanticism -- Switzerland; Switzerland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137475879; 1137475870
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