Impure Conceits

Impure Conceits
Title Impure Conceits PDF eBook
Author Alison Hickey
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 268
Release 1997
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780804729710

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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 systems—family narratives, property, education, and imperialism—and 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

The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography
Title The Excursion and Wordsworth's Iconography PDF eBook
Author Brandon Chao-Chi Yen
Publisher Romantic Reconfigurations Stud
Pages 336
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1786941333

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Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently 'collateral', makes crucial contributions to his central arguments and preoccupations in The Excursion, as well as in his other major works.

The Harp and the Constitution

The Harp and the Constitution
Title The Harp and the Constitution PDF eBook
Author
Publisher BRILL
Pages 270
Release 2015-11-16
Genre History
ISBN 9004306382

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‘Celtic’ and ‘Gothic’: both words refer today to both ancient tribes and modern styles. ‘Celtic’ is associated with harp music, native knitwear, and spirituality; ‘Gothic’ with medieval cathedrals, rock bands, and horror fiction. The eleven essays collected together here chart some of the curious and unexpected ways in which the Celts and the Goths were appropriated and reinvented in Britain and other European countries through the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries – becoming not just mythologised races, but lending their names to abstract principles and entire value systems. Contributed by experts in literature, archaeology, history, and Celtic studies, the essays range from broad surveys to specific case-studies, and together demonstrate the complicated interplay that has always existed between ‘Celticism’ and ‘Gothicism’. Contributors are: John Collis, Robert DeMaria, Jr., Tom Duggett, Tim Fulford, Nick Groom, Amy Hale, Ronald Hutton, Joep Leerssen, Dafydd Moore, Joanne Parker, Juan Miguel Zarandona.

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
Title Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel PDF eBook
Author Mark Offord
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 293
Release 2016-07-07
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107155584

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This book offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth's poetry, combining concepts of travel, 'states of nature' and language.

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Title The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth PDF eBook
Author William Wordsworth
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Pages 390
Release 1854
Genre
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Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism

Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism
Title Georgic Modernity and British Romanticism PDF eBook
Author Kevis Goodman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 268
Release 2004-07-29
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780521831680

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Goodman traces connections between Georgic verse and developments in other spheres from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England

The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England
Title The Parliamentary Or Constitutional History of England PDF eBook
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Pages 502
Release 1763
Genre Constitutional history
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