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Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print General Editors: Professor Anne K. Mellor and Professor Clifford Siskin Editorial Board: Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck & IES; John Bender, Stanford; Alan Bewell, Toronto; Peter de Bolla, Cambridge; Robert Miles, Victoria; Claudia L. Johnson, Princeton; Saree Makdisi, UCLA; Felicity Nussbaum, UCLA; Mary Poovey, NYU; Janet Todd, Cambridge Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print will feature work that does not fit comfortably within established boundaries—whether between peri- ods or between disciplines. Uniquely, it will combine efforts to engage the power and materiality of print with explorations of gender, race, and class. By attending as well to intersections of literature with the visual arts, medicine, law, and science, the series will enable a large-scale rethinking of the origins of modernity. Titles include: Melanie Bigold WOMEN OF LETTERS, MANUSCRIPT CIRCULATION, AND PRINT AFTERLIVES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Elizabeth Rowe, Catharine Cockburn, and Elizabeth Carter Dometa Brothers THE ROMANTIC IMAGINATION AND ASTRONOMY On All Sides Infinity Katey Castellano THE ECOLOGY OF BRITISH ROMANTIC CONSERVATISM, 1790–1837 Noah Comet ROMANTIC HELLENISM AND WOMEN WRITERS Ildiko Csengei SYMPATHY, SENSIBILITY AND THE LITERATURE OF FEELING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Alexander Dick ROMANTICISM AND THE GOLD STANDARD Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790–1830 Elizabeth Eger BLUESTOCKINGS Women of Reason from Enlightenment to Romanticism Angela Esterhammer, Diane Piccitto and Patrick Vincent (editors) ROMANTICISM, ROUSSEAU, SWITZERLAND New Prospects John Gardner POETRY AND POPULAR PROTEST Peterloo, Cato Street and the Queen Caroline Controversy George C. Grinnell THE AGE OF HYPOCHONDRIA Interpreting Romantic Health and Illness David Higgins ROMANTIC ENGLISHNESS Anthony S. Jarrells BRITAIN’S BLOODLESS REVOLUTIONS 1688 and the Romantic Reform of Literature Emrys Jones FRIENDSHIP AND ALLEGIANCE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE The Politics of Private Virtue in the Age of Walpole Jacqueline M. Labbe WRITING ROMANTICISM Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784–1807 April London LITERARY HISTORY WRITING, 1770–1820 Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv Roberts (editors) ROMANTICISM AND BLACKWOOD’S MAGAZINE ‘An Unprecedented Phenomenon’ Catherine Packham EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY VITALISM Bodies, Culture, Politics Emma Peacocke ROMANTICISM AND THE MUSEUM Murray G.H. Pittock MATERIAL CULTURE AND SEDITION, 1688–1760 Treacherous Objects, Secret Places Jessica Richard THE ROMANCE OF GAMBLING IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL Andrew Rudd SYMPATHY AND INDIA IN BRITISH LITERATURE, 1770–1830 Seth Rudy LITERATURE AND ENCYCLOPEDISM IN ENLIGHTENMENT BRITAIN Sharon Ruston CREATING ROMANTICISM Case Studies in the Literature, Science and Medicine of the 1790s Yasmin Solomonescu JOHN THELWALL AND THE MATERIALIST IMAGINATION Richard Squibbs URBAN ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PERIODICAL ESSAY Transatlantic Retrospects David Stewart ROMANTIC MAGAZINES AND METROPOLITAN LITERARY CULTURE Rebecca Tierney-Hynes NOVEL MINDS Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680–1740 P. Westover NECROMANTICISM Travelling to Meet the Dead, 1750–1860 Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–403–93408–6 hardback 978–1–403–93409–3 paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Also by Angela Esterhammer: SPHERES OF ACTION: Speech and Performance in Romantic Culture (ed.) ROMANTICISM AND IMPROVISATION, 1750–1850 Northrop Frye, NORTHROP FRYE ON MILTON AND BLAKE (ed.) SPONTANEOUS OVERFLOWS AND REVIVIFYING RAYS: Romanticism and the Discourse of Improvisation ROMANTIC POETRY: Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (ed.) THE ROMANTIC PERFORMATIVE: Language and Action in British and German Romanticism CREATING STATES: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and William Blake R. M. Rilke, TWO STORIES OF PRAGUE (trans.) Also by Diane Piccitto: BLAKE’S DRAMA: Theatre, Performance, and Identity in the Illuminated Books Also by Patrick Vincent: Helen Maria Williams, A TOUR IN SWITZERLAND (ed.) CHILLON: A Literary Guide (ed.) LA SUISSE VUE PAR LES ÉCRIVAINS DE LANGUE ANGLAISE AMERICAN POETRY: Walt Whitman to the Present (ed.) THE ROMANTIC POETESS: European Culture, Politics and Gender, 1820–1840 This page intentionally left blank Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland New Prospects 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 Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Angela Esterhammer, Diane Piccitto and Patrick Vincent 2015 Individual chapters © Contributors 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-47585-5 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romanticism, Rousseau, Switzerland : new prospects / 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. pages cm. — (Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and the cultures of print) Summary: “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”.— Provided by publisher. Includes index. 1. Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712–1778. 2. Romanticism—British. 3. Switzerland—Intellectual life—18th–19th century. I. Esterhammer, Angela, editor. II. Piccitto, Diane, editor. III. Vincent, Patrick H., editor. PQ2043.R66 2015 848’.509—dc23 2015001280 Typeset by MPS Limited, Chennai, India. Contents List of Illustrations ix Notes on the Contributors x 1 Introduction 1 Patrick Vincent, Diane Piccitto, and Angela Esterhammer 2 Romantic Education, Concealment, and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseau’s Emile and Frances Brooke’s Julia Mandeville 21 Enit K. Steiner 3 Romantic Suicide, Contagion, and Rousseau’s Julie 38 Michelle Faubert 4 Seeing Jean-Jacques’ Nature: Rousseau’s Call for a Botanist Reader 54 Rachel Corkle 5 Rousseau’s Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period 68 Wendy C. Nielsen 6 Rousseau on the Tourist Trail 84 Nicola J. Watson 7 James Boswell and Rousseau in Môtiers: Re-inscribing Childhood and Its (Auto)biographical Prospects 101 Gordon Turnbull 8 Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journal of a Tour on the Continent 117 Pamela Buck 9 Visionary Republics: Virtual Representations of Switzerland and Wordsworth’s Lake District 132 Patrick Vincent 10 A ‘Melancholy Occurrence’ in the Alps: Switzerland, Mont Blanc, and an Early Critique of Mountaineering 150 Simon Bainbridge vii viii Contents 11 Manfred, Freedom, and the Swiss Alps: The Transformation of the Byronic Hero 168 Diane Piccitto 12 Legendary Late-Romantic Switzerlands: Baillie, Polidori, Hemans, and Scott 183 Angela Esterhammer 13 Rodolphe Töpffer’s Earliest Comic Strips and the Tools of the Picturesque: Teaching the Art of Perception 200 Kirstyn Leuner Index 219 List of Illustrations Cover Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, ‘Cascade près de Motier travers [sic] dans le Comté de Neufchatel’, painted before August 1765. © Musée Rousseau Môtiers / Agence Martienne 9.1 Franz Ludwig Pfyffer von Wyher, ‘Terrain Model of Central Switzerland’ (1762–1786). 1:11,500, 390 x 670 cm. Courtesy of Glacier Garden Lucerne. 143 13.1 Rodolphe Töpffer, preface (top 2 panels) and beginning (bottom 2 panels) of Vieux Bois (1827). © Cabinet d’arts graphiques des Musées d’art et d’histoire, Genève, BA 2003-0005-D. Photo: Flora Bevilacqua. 205 13.2 Rodolphe Töpffer, preface to Vieux Bois (1839). 208 13.3 Rodolphe Töpffer, ‘Second abduction’ of the Beloved Object, panels 109–111 (1827). © Cabinet d’arts graphiques des Musées d’art et d’histoire, Genève, BA 2003-0005-D. Photo: Flora Bevilacqua. 210 13.4 Rodolphe Töpffer, Festus panel 143 (1829). © Cabinet d’arts graphiques des Musées d’art et d’histoire, Genève, 1910-0172. Photo: Flora Bevilacqua. Right: Töpffer, Festus panel 4 (1840). 214 ix
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