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Beschreibung
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 account 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. In Volume 2, she describes her excursion in the Alps, presenting also observations on Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.
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 account 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. In Volume 2, she describes her excursion in the Alps, presenting also observations on Zurich, Fribourg and Berne.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Importe, Informatik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781108065443
ISBN-10: 1108065449
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Williams, Helen Maria
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Helen Maria Williams
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,516 kg
Artikel-ID: 105617715

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