Benis Romanticism on the Road

The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless
2000
ISBN: 978-0-230-59946-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 278 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benis, T.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Introduction: Homelessness Yesterday and Today: Repression of Relief? Unsettling Powers in the Early Landscapes Salisbury Plain and the Recuperation of Freedom Life During Wartime in Lyrical Ballads Suspicious Lives: Delinquency in the 1802 Poems Errant Thoughts and Social Crimes in The Prelude Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Toby R. Benis is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Louis University.