Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland [electronic resource] : New Prospects /
Esterhammer, A.editor.
Piccitto, D.editor.
Vincent, P.editor.
This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland.
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors 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 Corkle5.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 Môtiers: 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 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 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 Töpffer's Earliest Comic Strips and The Tools of the Picturesque: Teaching the Art of Perception; Kirstyn Leuner.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
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