Impure Conceits
Title | Impure Conceits PDF eBook |
Author | Alison Hickey |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780804729710 |
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.
History of English Literature
Title | History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1106 |
Release | 1879 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
The Worlds Great Classics
Title | The Worlds Great Classics PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Feminine Engendered Faith
Title | Feminine Engendered Faith PDF eBook |
Author | M. Sabine |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2015-12-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230372589 |
This book proposes the poetic link between Donne and Crashaw during the English Reformation. In the first half of this work, Donne's Songs and Sonets, Verse Letters, religious works and Anniversaries are discussed as they reflect increasingly covert reverence for a holy mother figure. In the second half, Crashaw's juvenile poems and epigrams, verse in honour of the Virgin and Child, and mature contemplative verse are seen to express mystical homage to Mary and growing admiration for feminine powers of faith.
The Class-Room Taine. History of English Literature. ... Abridged from the Translation of H. Van Laun and Edited with ... Notes ... by J. Fiske
Title | The Class-Room Taine. History of English Literature. ... Abridged from the Translation of H. Van Laun and Edited with ... Notes ... by J. Fiske PDF eBook |
Author | Hippolyte Taine |
Publisher | |
Pages | 512 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
History of English Literature
Title | History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | H. A. Taine |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 506 |
Release | 2023-06-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3382813262 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
History of English Literature
Title | History of English Literature PDF eBook |
Author | H. Taine |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 2022-10-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3368127551 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.