Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country during the Romantic period, this book shows how its idealized republican landscape enabled contemporaries to compare the Alps with Britain and to imagine a liberal alternative to French liberty.
Illuminating the reasons for the immense popularity of travel to Switzerland and the proliferation of images of that country during the Romantic period, this book shows how its idealized republican landscape enabled contemporaries to compare the Alps with Britain and to imagine a liberal alternative to French liberty.