Patrick Vincent

Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

A detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature, the book shows how a republican myth contributed to Romanticism and liberalism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009210317
• Artikelnr.: 70910224

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.