This collection brings together current research on topics that are perennially important to Romantic studies: the life and work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the landscape and history of his native Switzerland.

This new collection is of central importance to this trend and offers insightful contributions to our understanding of the fascinating intersections between Rousseau . the collection more than fulfils its aim of articulating 'new prospects' and is likely to be seminal in terms of signalling and laying the foundations for the current resurgence of interest in Rousseau. the collection is undoubtedly impressive and is to be commended as an invaluable contribution by eminent voices within Romanticism scholarship. (Adrian J. Wallbank, The BARS Review, Issue 48, Autumn, 2016)

Autorentext
Simon Bainbridge, Lancaster University, UK Pamela Buck, Sacred Heart University, USA Rachel Corkle, BMCC, City University of New York, USA Angela Esterhammer, University of Toronto, USA Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba, Canada Kirstyn Leuner, Dartmouth College, USA Wendy C. Nielsen, Montclair State University, USA Diane Piccitto, Plymouth University, UK Enit Karafili Steiner, independent scholar, Switzerland Gordon Turnbull, independent scholar, USA Patrick Vincent, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Nicola Watson, Open University, UK

Inhalt
List of Illustrations Notes on the Contributors 1. Introduction; Patrick Vincent, Diane Piccitto, and Angela Esterhammer 2. Romantic Education, Concealment and Orchestrated Desire in Rousseau's Emile and Frances Brooke's Julia Mandeville; Enit K. Steiner 3. Romantic Suicide, Contagion, and Rousseau's Julie; Michelle Faubert 4. Seeing Jean-Jacques' Nature: Rousseau's Call for a Botanist Reader; Rachel Corkle 5. Rousseau's Pygmalion and Automata in the Romantic Period; Wendy C. Nielsen 6. Rousseau on the Tourist Trail; Nicola J. Watson 7. James Boswell and Rousseau in Môtiers: Re-inscribing Childhood and Its (Auto)biographical Prospects; Gordon Turnbull 8. Prints, Panoramas, and Picturesque Travel in Dorothy Wordsworth's Journal of a Tour on the Continent; Pamela Buck 9. Visionary Republics: Virtual Representations of Switzerland and Wordsworth's Lake District; Patrick Vincent 10. A 'Melancholy Occurrence' in the Alps: Switzerland, Mont Blanc, and an Early Critique of Mountaineering; Simon Bainbridge 11. Manfred, Freedom, and the Swiss Alps: The Transformation of the Byronic Hero; Diane Piccitto 12. Legendary Late-Romantic Switzerlands: Baillie, Polidori, Hemans, and Scott; Angela Esterhammer 13. Rodolphe Töpffer's Earliest Comic Strips and The Tools of the Picturesque: Teaching the Art of Perception; Kirstyn Leuner Index