History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva

History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva - Paperback

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History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva
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History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva - Paperback

History of a Six Weeks' Tour: Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland: With Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva - Paperback

by Mary Wollstonecraft , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Cian Duffy
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Book Overview

'I never knew—I never imagined what mountains were before.'

History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817) is a volume of travel-writing by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley, two of the best-known authors of the English Romantic period. Comprising prose narrative, correspondence, and poetry, it is a highly engaging account of their 'adventures and feelings' during two journeys from England to Switzerland.

The first part of History describes the titular 'tour' made by the not-yet married Mary and Percy in July-September 1814, when mainland Europe was once again accessible to British travellers at the end of the Napoleonic wars. The long descriptive letters which make up the second part of History recall the so-called 'Frankenstein summer' of 1816, some of which the Shelleys spent with Byron on the shores of Lake Geneva. This part of History also provides significant biographical and historical context for Mary's novels Frankenstein (1818) and The Last Man (1826), key sections of which are set in the Alps, and for two of Percy's most canonical poems, 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' and 'Mont Blanc', the second of which was published for the first time in History. This edition includes an introduction, detailed notes, maps, and appendices, placing the book in its historical and cultural context and showcasing the Shelleys' collaborative writing process.

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ISBN9780192858276
Author Mary Wollstonecraft , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Cian Duffy
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages192
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Cian Duffy
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at Lund University, Sweden. His research examines various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of Europe during the Romantic period, particularly the Shelley circle, the sublime, and Romanticism in the Nordic countries. Recent publications include (as editor) The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime (2023) and British Romanticism and Denmark (2022). Anna Mercer is a lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University. She is the author of The Collaborative Literary Relationship of Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2019) as well as a range of articles on the Shelley circle and the Coleridge family. She has worked closely with the Keats House Museum in Hampstead, London, since 2017, and she founded The Shelley Conference that same year.

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