... ... . ... date content preparation
/ suggested links / texts discussed (provisional: to
be decided at the first meeting) week
1 Beginnings,
Overview poems, week
2 The Grand Tour I Thomas Coryat on Basle (1608) Crudities, vol. II, p. 150-176 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Map of Switzerland (1713) week
3 The
Grand Tour II week
4 The
Grand Tour III week
5 The
Alps Albrecht von Haller, Die
Alpen week
6 week
7 The Romantics I: Wordsworth Wordsworth: Prelude Book 6 (1806) (excerpt) see timeline: The Romantics week
8 The Romantics II: Byron and the Shelleys Lord Byron: The Prisoner of Chillon (1816), Childe Harold (1816), Manfred (1816), week
9 Americans I J. F. Cooper J. F. Cooper: Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1828, p. 1836) (excerpt) iv, x, xiv, xv,, xxv, xxvi week
10 The
Victorians I Mountaineering:
Leslie Stephen: The Playground of Europe
(1871) week
11 The
Victorians II Ruskin
/ Turner Ruskin:
Accounts of a Tour (1833) week
12 The
Victorians III Fanny
Kemble:
The Adventures of Mr. John Timothy Homespun in
Switzerland (1889) week
13 20th
Century D.H.
Lawrence
Twilight in Italy, ch. 3 and 4:
Italians
in Exile
/ The
Return Journey week
14 Tourism
today Tourism
in Basel? Basel Tourismus ... December
2007
Universität
Basel, Englisches Seminar
Markus
Marti
spring term 2008
TOURISM IN SWITZERLAND
course programme
See also: Tourism in
Switzerland (timeline)
till
1789
/ The
Romantics (1789 -
1837) / The
Victorians (1837 -
1901) / 20th
century
course programme (provisional)
short accounts of early visitors
William Coxe on Basel (publ. 1789)
Boswell
on the Grand Tour (1764) (excerpts)
Black, Jeremy. The British Abroad.
comic opera: Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745-1824)
The Travellers in Switzerland. (1794)
George
Keate, The Alps
Oliver Goldsmith: "The
Traveller".
(excerpt)
Edmund Burke, An Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1756)
William Gilpin. Three Essays: On Picturesque Beauty; On Picturesque Travel; and On Sketching Landscape , 1794
Sir Uvedale Price: Essay On The Picturesque (1794)
William Beattie: Switzerland Illustrated in a Series of View Taken expressly for this Work by William Henry Bartlett. (Introduction )
see timeline: The Romantics
Wordsworth: several sonnets on Switzerland (1820)
Montgomery: The Wanderer of Switzerland (1806)
P.B. Shelley: Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley. History of a Six Weeks' Tour (excerpt)
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (introd.)
see timeline: The Romantics
William Beattie: Switzerland Illustrated (1836)
Longfellow Hyperion, Neal: Lament of a Swiss Minstrel over the Ruins of Goldau (1829), Read: The Chamois Hunter (1883)
J. G. Ebel: Anleitung auf die nützlichste und genussvollste Art die Schweiz zu bereisen. (1843)
Baedeker's Schweiz (1854)
1850-1900
J. A. Symonds: Swiss
Athletic
Sports;
Davos
(1891)
Winter sports
Bernard, Paul B. Rush to the Alps. New York
1978. (excerpt)
Jim Ring, How the English Made the Alps (ch.
4: 83-100)
John B. Allen: The British and Skiing
see timeline: The
Victorians
Ruskin, Modern Painters vol. III (1856,
excerpt)
Ruskin: Letters, (1873)
see timeline: The
Victorians
Americans II
Mark Twain: A
Tramp Abroad
(excerpt: ch. 25ff)
Bernard, Paul B. Rush to the Alps. New York
1978: "The Swiss Vacation"
Thomas
Cook
Travels
see timeline: The
Victorians
see timeline: 20th
century
See timeline on tourism in
Switzerland:
till
1789
/ The
Romantics (1789 -
1837) / The
Victorians (1837 -
1901) / 20th
century
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