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Universität Basel, Englisches Seminar
Markus Marti
spring term 2008


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TOURISM IN SWITZERLAND
course programme


See also: Tourism in Switzerland (timeline)

till 1789 / The Romantics (1789 - 1837) / The Victorians (1837 - 1901) / 20th century

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course programme (provisional)

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date

content

preparation / suggested links / texts discussed (provisional: to be decided at the first meeting)

week 1

 

Beginnings, Overview

poems,
short accounts of early visitors

week 2

 

The Grand Tour I

Thomas Coryat on Basle (1608) Crudities, vol. II, p. 150-176
William Coxe on Basel (publ. 1789)

Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Map of Switzerland (1713)

week 3

 

The Grand Tour II


Boswell on the Grand Tour (1764) (excerpts)


Black, Jeremy. The British Abroad.

week 4

 

The Grand Tour III


comic opera: Sir Henry Bate Dudley (1745-1824) The Travellers in Switzerland. (1794)

week 5

 

The Alps

 

Albrecht von Haller, Die Alpen
George Keate, The Alps
Oliver Goldsmith:
"The Traveller". (excerpt)

week 6

 


The Sublime, the Beautiful, the Picturesque

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

week 7

 


The Romantics I:

Wordsworth

Wordsworth: Prelude Book 6 (1806) (excerpt)
Wordsworth: several sonnets on Switzerland (1820)
Montgomery: The Wanderer of Switzerland (1806)

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),
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

week 9

 

Americans I

J. F. Cooper

J. F. Cooper: Gleanings in Europe: Switzerland (1828, p. 1836) (excerpt) iv, x, xiv, xv,, xxv, xxvi
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)

week 10

 


The Victorians I
1850-1900

Mountaineering: Leslie Stephen: The Playground of Europe (1871)
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

week 11

 


The Victorians II

Ruskin / Turner

Ruskin: Accounts of a Tour (1833)
Ruskin, Modern Painters vol. III (1856, excerpt)
Ruskin: Letters, (1873)

see timeline:
The Victorians

week 12

 


The Victorians III
Americans II

Fanny Kemble: The Adventures of Mr. John Timothy Homespun in Switzerland (1889)

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

week 13

 


20th Century

D.H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy, ch. 3 and 4: Italians in Exile / The Return Journey

see timeline:
20th century

week 14

 


Tourism today

Tourism in Basel? Basel Tourismus



See timeline on tourism in Switzerland:

till 1789 / The Romantics (1789 - 1837) / The Victorians (1837 - 1901) / 20th century


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