Wordsworth S Vagrants

Author : Quentin Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134782277

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Wordsworth's Vagrants by Quentin Bailey Pdf

Wordsworth's Vagrants explores the poet's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside. From his work on the Salisbury Plain poems through to the poetry about vagrants, beggars, and lunatics in Lyrical Ballads, Quentin Bailey argues, Wordsworth attempted to imagine a way of relating to the vagrant and criminal poor that could challenge the systematizing impulses of William Pitt and Jeremy Bentham. Whereas writers had previously relied on sensibility and fellow-feeling to reveal the correct ordering of society, Wordsworth was writing in a period in which legislators, magistrates, and commentators agreed that a more aggressively interventionist approach and new institutional solutions were needed to tackle criminality and establish a disciplined and obedient workforce. Wordsworth's interest in individual psychology and solitude, Bailey suggests, grew out of his specific awareness of the Bloody Code and the discussions surrounding it. His study offers a way of reading Wordsworth's poetry that is sensitive to his early radicalism but which does not equate socio-political engagement solely with support for the French Revolution.

Author : Gary Lee Harrison
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0814324819

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Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse by Gary Lee Harrison Pdf

William Wordsworth's poems are inhabited by beggars, vagrants, peddlers, and paupers. This book analyzes how a few key poems from Wordsworth's early years constitute a direct engagement with and intervention into the politics of poverty and reform that swept the social, political, and cultural landscape in England during the 1790s. In Wordsworth's Vagrant Muse, Gary Harrison argues that although Wordsworth's poetry is implicated in an ideology that idealizes rustic poverty, it nonetheless invests the image of the rural poor with a certain, if ambiguously realized, power. The early poems challenge the complacency of middle-class readers by constructing a mirror in which they confront the possibility of their own impoverishment (both economic and moral), and by investing the marginal poor with a sense of dignity and morality otherwise denied them.

Author : Carmen Casaliggi,Paul March-Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136273483

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Legacies of Romanticism by Carmen Casaliggi,Paul March-Russell Pdf

This book visits the Romantic legacy that was central to the development of literature and culture from the 1830s onward. Although critical accounts have examined aspects of this long history of indebtedness, this is the first study to survey both Nineteenth and Twentieth century culture. The authors consider the changing notion of Romanticism, looking at the diversity of its writers, the applicability of the term, and the ways in which Romanticism has been reconstituted. The chapters cover relevant historical periods and literary trends, including the Romantic Gothic, the Victorian era, and Modernism as part of a dialectical response to the Romantic legacy. Contributors also examine how Romanticism has been reconstituted within postmodern and postcolonial literature as both a reassessment of the Modernist critique and of the imperial contexts that have throughout this time-frame underpinned the Romantic legacy, bringing into focus the contemporaneity of Romanticism and its political legacy. This collection reveals the diversity and continuing relevance of the genre in new and exciting ways, offering insights into writers such as Browning, Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, Lewis, MacNeice, and Auster.

Author : Celeste Langan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521035104

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Romantic Vagrancy by Celeste Langan Pdf

Romantic Vagrancy offers a provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, by tracing a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of materials and the literally dispossessed beggars and vagrants he encounters. Reading Wordsworth--and Rousseau before him--from the perspective of current debates about the political and social rights of the homeless, Celeste Langan argues that both literature and vagrancy are surprisingly rich and disturbing images of the 'negative freedom' at the heart of liberalism. Langan shows how the formal structure of the Romantic poem--the improvisational excursion--mirrors its apparent themes, often narratives of impoverishment or abandonment. According to Langan, the encounter between the beggar and the passerby in Wordsworth's poetry does not simply reveal a social conscience or its lack; it represents the advent of the liberal subject, whose identity is stretched out between origin and destination, caught between economic and political forces, and the workings of desire. Langan's powerful and innovative argument revises current views both of Wordsworth's poetry and of the relation of literature to its social and political context.

Author : Celeste Langan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521475075

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Romantic Vagrancy by Celeste Langan Pdf

This powerful study revises both Wordsworth's poetry and the relation of literature to its social and political context.

Author : Christoph Bode,Jacqueline Labbe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317324317

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Romantic Localities by Christoph Bode,Jacqueline Labbe Pdf

Romantic Localities explores the ways in which Romantic-period writers of varying nationalities responded to languages, landscapes – both geographical and metaphorical – and literatures.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z314826601

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Notes and Queries: a Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175024106786

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620310

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Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals) by David Simpson Pdf

Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of the context of the public sphere and the social environment to the authentic experience of the imagination. Wordsworth’s preoccupation with the metaphors of property and labour shows him to be acutely anxious about the value of his art in a world that he regarded as corrupted. Through close examination of a few important poems, both well-known and relatively unknown, Simpson shows that there is no unitary, public Wordsworth, nor is there a conflict or tension between the private and the public. The absence of any clear kind of authority in the voice that speaks the poems makes Wordsworth’s poetry, in Simpson’s phrase, a ‘poetry of displacement’.

Author : Luke Lewin Davies
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030734329

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The Tramp in British Literature, 1850—1950 by Luke Lewin Davies Pdf

Shortlisted for the Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize 2022, The Tramp in British Literature, 1850-1950 offers a unique account of the emergence of a new conception of homelessness in the mid-nineteenth century. After arguing that the emergence of the figure of the tramp reflects the evolution of capitalism and disciplinary society in this period, The Tramp in British Literature uncovers a neglected body of "tramp literature" written by memoir and fiction writers, many of whom were themselves homeless. In analysing these works, it presents select texts as a unique and ignored contribution to a wider radical discourse defined by its opposition to a wider societal preoccupation with the need to be productive.

Author : Thomas Pfau,Robert Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317978640

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Romanticism and Modernity by Thomas Pfau,Robert Mitchell Pdf

Though traditionally defined as a relatively brief time period - typically the half century of 1780-1830 - the "Romantic era" constitutes a crucial, indeed unique, transitional phase in what has come to be called "modernity," for it was during these fifty years that myriad disciplinary, aesthetic, economic, and political changes long in the making accelerated dramatically. Due in part to the increased velocity of change, though, most of modernity’s essential master-tropes - such as secularization, instrumental reason, individual rights, economic self-interest, emancipation, system, institution, nation, empire, utopia, and "life" - were also subjected to incisive critical and methodological reflection and revaluation. The chapters in this collection argue that Romanticism’s marked ambivalence and resistance to decisive conceptualization arises precisely from the fact that Romantic authors simultaneously extended the project of European modernity while offering Romantic concepts as means for a sustained critical reflection on that very process. Focusing especially on the topics of form (both literary and organic), secularization (and its political correlates, utopia and apocalypse), and the question of how one narrates the arrival of modernity, this collection collectively emphasizes the importance of understanding modernity through the lens of Romanticism, rather than simply understanding Romanticism as part of modernity. This book was previously published as a special issue of European Romantic Review.

Author : Richard Gravil,Daniel Robinson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191019654

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The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth by Richard Gravil,Daniel Robinson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship. This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

Author : T. Benis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230599468

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Romanticism on the Road by T. Benis Pdf

Romanticism on the Road challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age. Refusing to ally with either radicals or conservatives after the French Revolution, the poet seizes on vagrants to attack the binary thinking dominating public affairs and to question the value of the Georgian domestic ideal. Drawing on current and historical discussions of homelessness, the study offers a cultural history of vagrancy and explains why Wordsworth chose the homeless to bear his message.

Author : M. Keay
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403919564

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William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution by M. Keay Pdf

Wordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking. His 'Golden Age ideal' of pastoral life and rural relationships falls within the scope of English 'populism' as found among the middle ranks of small independent producers and their idealogues. Furthermore his rural education and up-bringing in the remote North of England explain his long-term shift from radical and whig reformer to tory placeman in the years 1789 to 1832 as well as his relative demise as a poet.

Author : Herbert Samuel Lindenberger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400878291

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On Wordsworth's Prelude by Herbert Samuel Lindenberger Pdf

In a series of closely related essays, Professor Lindenberger analyzes the language, style, imagery, and organization of Wordsworth's "Prelude.’’ In precise detail and with richly relevant use of critical and historical materials, he demonstrates the variety and complexity of “The Prelude" leading the reader into a deepened understanding of one of the major long poems in the English language. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.