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Exit through the Gift Shop: Bringing Things
If my endless accounts of literary stalking have inspired you to embark on your own visit to a writer’s house, there is one vital item that you’ll need to squeeze into your suitcase, if you’ve not done so already. … Continue reading
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Tagged A Handbook for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savoy and Piedmont, Edward Gibbon, Germaine de Staël, history of reading, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Lord Byron, love of literature, Nicola Watson The Author's Effects, Voltaire
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Series 2: Visiting Voltaire at Ferney
In 1764, the young James Boswell, already a confirmed celebrity hound, headed to Switzerland to visit two famous figures then living in the environs of Geneva: Rousseau, presently retired in the little village of Môtiers-Travers, and Voltaire, holding court at … Continue reading
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Tagged 'Rousseau on the Tourist Trail', Albert Montémont, Ferney, Geneva, history of reading, James Boswell, James Fenimore Cooper, literary landmark, literary landscape, literary museums, literary pilgrimage, literary tourism, literary tourist, Louis Simond, love of literature, Nicola Watson, Nikolai Karamzin, Romanticism Rousseau Switzerland: New Propects ed. Angela Esterhammer Diane Piccitto Patrick Vincent, Voltaire
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