Introduction; 1. 'Not / a pastoral fable': republicanism, liberalism, and the Swiss myth; 2. Comparative republicanisms: the Swiss myth in eighteenth-century Britain; 3. Revising republicanism: revolutionary-period travel writing on Switzerland; 4. Switzerland no more: 1798 and the romantic imagination; 5. Switzerland in miniature: Wordsworth's 'visionary mountain republic'; 6. Restoration republicanism: the Swiss myth after 1815; Coda: John Ruskin's Switzerland; Notes; Bibliography; Index.