Impure Conceits
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Impure Conceits
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Author : Alison Hickey
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1997
Impure Conceits written by Alison Hickey and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book redefines the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from Romantic to Victorian. Taking The Excursion and a constellation of related texts as a framework, the book suggests that the staggering critical neglect of Wordsworth's major project is correlated with the persistent inability of literary historians to chart that transition. To understand this elusive phase of literary and cultural history, the author proposes, we need to understand Wordsworth's role in it. The book reevaluates the significance of The Excursion, both in Wordsworth's corpus and in the contexts of the French Revolution and the post-Napoleonic industrial/imperial order leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832. Through a series of theoretically informed readings of The Excursion alongside other Wordsworthian texts, the author reveals Wordsworth's ongoing vital engagement with questions of imagination and ideology, questions that persist, in ever-shifting forms, through the continuities and discontinuities of historical context. Foregrounding problems of rhetorical interpretation as The Excursion's central concern, this study focuses on the implications of these problems for the text's promotion of a social vision. It examines various figural systemsfamily narratives, property, education, and imperialismand shows how diverse critical strategies of assimilating poetic text to doctrine meet with a resistant blankness at the heart of the figural production of meaning in the poem. This blankness is suggestive of the gap between Wordsworth's poetry and its simple appropriation by cultural or political analysis. Paradoxically it also suggests that an understanding of the dynamics of poetic figuration is crucially relevant to any study of Wordsworth's social and political theory.
The Excursion And Wordsworth S Iconography
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Author : Brandon C. Yen
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
The Excursion And Wordsworth S Iconography written by Brandon C. Yen and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book considers William Wordsworth’s use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a middle course between The Excursion’s two very different interpretive traditions, one focusing upon the poem’s philosophical abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth’s other major works, including The Prelude. Yen explores Wordsworth’s iconography in The Excursion by tracing allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth’s prose and poetry. He analyses how the iconographical images in The Excursion contribute to, and impose limitations on, the overarching preoccupations of Wordsworth’s writings, particularly the themes of paradise lost and paradise regained in the post-revolutionary context. Shedding light on a vital aspect of Wordsworth’s poetic method, this study reveals the visual etymologies – together with the nuances and rhetorical capacities – of five categories of apparently ‘collateral’ images: envisioning, rooting, dwelling, flowing, and reflecting.
Wordsworth Commodification And Social Concern
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Author : David Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-02-19
Wordsworth Commodification And Social Concern written by David Simpson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Simpson's reading of Wordsworth examines Wordsworth's reaction to changes in the modern world at the turn of the century.
William Wordsworth In Context
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Author : Andrew Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-12
William Wordsworth In Context written by Andrew Bennett and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-12 with History categories.
This book provides the essential contexts for an understanding of all aspects of the major English Romantic poet, William Wordsworth.
Written On The Water
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Author : Samuel Baker
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010-07-08
Written On The Water written by Samuel Baker and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The very word "culture" has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain's imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea’s beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Baker insists on taking into account the significance of water for that idea’s development. For the Romantics, figures of the island, the deluge, and the sundering tide often convey the insularity of cultures understood to stand apart from the whole; yet, Baker writes, the sea also stands in their poetry of culture as a reminder of the broader sphere of circulation in which the poet's work, if not the poet's subject, inheres. Although other books treat the history of the idea of culture, none synthesizes that history with the literary history of maritime empire. Written on the Water tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. In so doing, it analyzes Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales, and Arnold's dual identity as "poet of water" and prose arbiter of "culture." It also considers Romanticism's classical inheritance, arguing that the Lake Poets dissolved into the idea of culture the Virgilian system of pastoral, georgic, and epic modes of literature and life. This compelling new study will engage any reader interested in the intellectual and literary history of Britain and the lived experience of British Romanticism.
Romanticism And Byron
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Author : Peter Cochran
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03-26
Romanticism And Byron written by Peter Cochran and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Romanticism - and Byron" is a book in two parts. In the first part, Dr Cochran examines "Romanticism" and shows that it is a word meaning anything, and therefore nothing. It is an academic construct created by academics, and has no basis in the writings of the early nineteenth century. Its continued use, argues Dr Cochran, is a modern marketing phenomenon solely. In the second part, Dr Cochran examines the life and work of Byron in the non-"romantic" context of his contemporaries. He shows how Byron's antithetical nature created problems when he was forced into compromising situations with friends who were close to parts of his mind, yet irreconcilable with one another. This "mobility", argues Cochran, was often an embarrassment for Byron's social life, but of great benefit to his creativity. This part of the book features chapters on Shelley, Scott, Blake, Keats, Coleridge and Wordsworth, and is notable for the amount of original archive documentation with which Cochran illustrates his theme.
The Lady S Monthly Museum Or Polite Repository Of Amusement And Instruction
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801
The Lady S Monthly Museum Or Polite Repository Of Amusement And Instruction written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1801 with categories.
The Lady S Monthly Museum
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1801-07
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Romanticism And The Rural Community
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Author : S. White
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2013-08-08
Romanticism And The Rural Community written by S. White and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
The proper organisation of rural communities was central to political and social debates at the turn of the eighteenth century, and featured strongly in the 1790s political polemic that influenced so many Romantic poets and novelists. This book investigates the representation of the rural village and country town in a range of Romantic texts.
The Harp And The Constitution
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-11-16
The Harp And The Constitution written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with History categories.
The Harp and the Constitution consists of eleven essays charting the unexpected ways in which the Celts and Goths were reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries – becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to entire value systems.