Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland
Subtitle: new prospects
By: 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
Series: Palgrave Studies in the enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781137475855
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Intellectual life; PHILOSOPHY / Social; Romanticism; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays
Description: "This collection brings together current research on topics that - separately and together - are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland. Some of the essays re-orient Rousseau back to his Swiss context, while others address a Rousseauean Switzerland, a landscape indelibly coloured for writers and travellers by his presence. Among the authors discussed are Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Byron, Mary Shelley, James Boswell, Frances Brooke, Walter Scott, Felicia Hemans, and the Swiss cartoonist Rodolphe Töpffer. Topics include Rousseau's relevance to Romantic-era discoveries and debates on education, botany, automata, and suicide. Delving into Romanticism's engagement with Switzerland, these essays examine the rise of alpine and literary tourism, technologies of the picturesque, and representations and reconstructions of Swiss landscape in verbal and visual media"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: List of IllustrationsNotes on the Contributors1.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.