A Tour in Switzerland 2 Volume Set
Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris
Published on 31. October 2013
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740 pages
978-1-108-06595-5 (ISBN)
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The radical writer and poet Helen Maria Williams (1759-1827) is best remembered for her eight-volume Letters from France (1790-6), charting the progress of the French Revolution. Having published poetry and a novel, Julia (1790), she travelled to France, where her salon welcomed the likes of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine and leading Girondists. Forced to flee the country in 1794, she went into exile in Switzerland for six months, travelling with the printer and political reformer John Hurford Stone (1763-1818). This two-volume travelogue of the journeys she made during her time there, first published in 1798, documents what she sees as the failure of Swiss democracy. Highlighting the shortcomings of the Swiss government and the suffering of much of Swiss society through exploitation, Williams anticipates revolutionary activity in the cantons. Volume 1 concentrates primarily on Basel and its canton. Volume 2 includes coverage of the Alps, Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Professional and scholarly
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940 gr
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978-1-108-06595-5 (9781108065955)
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Helen Maria Williams
A Tour in Switzerland
Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris
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Helen Maria Williams
A Tour in Switzerland
Or, a View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris
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10/2013
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Volume 1: Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Comparative view of the spirit of commerce; 3. Amusements of Paris; 4. Road from Basil into the canton of Soleure; 5. Lavater; 6. Country from Basil to Zuric; 7. Canton of Basil; 8. Government of the canton of Basil; 9. Curiosities of Basil; 10. Lucerne; 11. Altorf; 12. Top of St Gothard; 13. Valley of Levantine; 14. Government of the Levantine valley; 15. Government of the canton of Uri; 16. Giornico; 17. Installation of the bailiff of Lugano; 18. A storm on the lake; 19. History of an emigrant family; 20. Visit to the Grisons; 21. Val Calenca state of society; 22. St Bernadin. Volume 2: 22[a]. Ascent to the glaciers; 23. Source of the Rhone; 24. Coire; 25. Grison mode of negociating; 26. Baths of Pffyffer; 27. Glaris; 28. Lake of Zurich; 29. Return to Lucerne; 30. Tell's chapel; 31. Cabinets of natural history in Switzerland; 32. Autumnal views on the Jura; 33. Excursions round Neufchatel; 34. Vevay; 35. Fribourg; 36. Arrival at Berne; 37. Reclamations of the Pays de Vaud; 38. State of the peasantry and manufactures in the canton of Berne; 39. Trial of the members of the festival; 40. Discontents of the popular party; Appendix.