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Comparisons of Helen female horse Williams A Tour in Switzerland and Lady Morgans Italy full treatment Cited MissingBoth Helen Maria Williams and Lady Morgan are classic representatives of the genre of Romantic conk out literature. These two accounts were published to a greater extent than twenty years apart, and go they regard different countries, thematic and stylistic parallels and contrasts can, not surprisingly, be established between the two works. Social and cultural commentary, as well political and historical criticism, are prominent in these two accounts. Another point of comparison is the theme of the relation of man with nature. Williams style leans toward the sentimental tradition in travel writing it is personalized and her perceptions feed to be mediated through the emotions. Lady Morgans descriptions rely more on intellectual rather than frantic elements, and are very much polemical, while also rest self-consciously subjective. Both writers register powerful emotion at seeing the Alps for the root time. Both also bugger off an effort to give this important result a particular context. Williams stresses the subjective, that is, the importance of the Alps in her own personal narrative, and in this way contextualizes for the reader the emotional rapture, or transport, which she relates to us of the moment of the first observe It was not without the most powerful emotion that, for the first time, I cast my eyes on that solemn, that elevated vision, the Alps - how often had the report of those stupendous mountains filled my heart with enthusiastic awe - so long, so eagerly, had I desired to contemplate that scene of wonders, that I was unable to trace when first the wish was awakened in my bosom - it seemed from childhood to have m... ...commodiousness of the private provides is, that the ancients, like the modern population of Rome and Naples, lived more abroad than in the house (292). The painting on the facades of the palaces of Genoa are not described in visual detail, which may have been one approach, but alternatively prompt an argument about(predicate) the institutes of art and the nature of public demand (306). A visit to the Museo Capitolino in Rome breeds the remark that plunder was ever the ruler of the Romans (115). She solidifies the Coliseum in the readers stock as the last and noblest monument of Roman grandeur, and Roman crime (125). A memorable representation of Naples, encountered as her first view of the city from some distance, is Morgans creative construct of it as some fabled city of the east, the dream of Arabian poets (278). In this way her Italy is very much a mediated Italy. Comparisons of Helen Maria Williams A Tour in Switzerland and Lady MorComparisons of Helen Maria Williams A Tour in Switzerland and Lady Morgans Italy Works Cited MissingBoth Helen Maria Williams and Lady Morgan are important representatives of the genre of Romantic travel literature. These two accounts were published more than twenty years apart, and while they regard different countries, thematic and stylistic parallels and contrasts can, not surprisingly, be established between the two works. Social and cultural commentary, as well political and historical criticism, are prominent in these two accounts. Another point of comparison is the theme of the relation of man with nature. Williams style leans toward the sentimental tradition in travel writing it is personalized and her perceptions tend to be mediated through the emotions. Lady Morgans descriptions rely more on intellectual rather than emotional elements, and are often polemical, while also remaining self-consciously subjective. Both writers register powerful emotion at seeing the Alps for the first time. Both also make an effort to give this important moment a particular context. Williams stresses the subjective, that is, the importance of the Alps in her own personal narrative, and in this way contextualizes fo r the reader the emotional rapture, or transport, which she relates to us of the moment of the first view It was not without the most powerful emotion that, for the first time, I cast my eyes on that solemn, that majestic vision, the Alps - how often had the idea of those stupendous mountains filled my heart with enthusiastic awe - so long, so eagerly, had I desired to contemplate that scene of wonders, that I was unable to trace when first the wish was awakened in my bosom - it seemed from childhood to have m... ...commodiousness of the private houses is, that the ancients, like the modern population of Rome and Naples, lived more abroad than in the house (292). The painting on the facades of the palaces of Genoa are not described in visual detail, which may have been one approach, but instead prompt an argument about the institutes of art and the nature of public demand (306). A visit to the Museo Capitolino in Rome breeds the remark that plunder was ever the principle of the Rom ans (115). She solidifies the Coliseum in the readers memory as the last and noblest monument of Roman grandeur, and Roman crime (125). A memorable representation of Naples, encountered as her first view of the city from some distance, is Morgans imaginative construct of it as some fabled city of the east, the dream of Arabian poets (278). In this way her Italy is very much a mediated Italy.