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, Associate Lecturer, Plymouth University, UK ; Patrick Vincent, Professor of English, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
• Editors: Esterhammer, Angela; Piccitto, Diane; Vincent, Patrick H
• Other Names: Palgrave Connect (Online service)
• Contents: 1. Introduction; Patrick Vincent, Diane Piccitto, and Angela Esterhammer -- 2. Romantic Education, Concealment and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseau's Emile and Frances Brooke's Julia Mandeville; Enit K. Steiner -- 3. Romantic Suicide, Contagion, and Rousseau's Julie;Michelle Faubert -- 4. Seeing Jean-Jacques' Nature: Rousseau's Call for a Botanist Reader; Rachel Corkle -- 5. Rousseau's Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period; Wendy C. Nielsen -- 6. Rousseau on the Tourist Trail; Nicola J. Watson -- 7. James Boswell and Rousseau in M̥tiers: Re-inscribing Childhood and Its (Auto)biographical Prospects; Gordon Turnbull -- 8. Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal of a Tour on the Continent; Pamela Buck -- 9. Visionary Republics: Virtual Representations of Switzerland and Wordsworth's Lake District; Patrick Vincent -- 10.A 'Melancholy Occurrence' in the Alps: Switzerland, Mont Blanc, and an Early Critique of Mountaineering; Simon Bainbridge -- 11. Manfred, Freedom, and the Swiss Alps: The Transformation of the Byronic Hero; Diane Piccitto -- 12. Legendary Late-Romantic Switzerlands: Baillie, Polidori, Hemans, and Scott; Angela Esterhammer -- 13. Rodolphe T̲pffer's Earliest Comic Strips and The Tools of the Picturesque: Teaching the Art of Perception; Kirstyn Leuner.
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 848/.509; Political science; Romanticism -- Switzerland; World politics; European literature; Literature; Social sciences; Political science -- Philosophy; LITERARY CRITICISM -- General; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General; PHILOSOPHY -- Social; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays; Intellectual life; Romanticism; Philosophy -- Social; Literary Criticism -- General; Social Science -- General; Philosophy -- Political; Social & political philosophy; Literature: history & criticism; Literature & literary studies; Society & social sciences; Political Science -- History & Theory; Political science & theory; Switzerland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Switzerland; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137475862; 1137475862
• Related ISBNs: 9781137475855
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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