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Item Details
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ROMANTICISM ON THE ROAD
THE MARGINAL GAINS OF WORDSWORTH'S HOMELESS |
| By: |
Toby R. Benis, Marilyn Gaull (Editor), Stephen Prickett (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0333718879 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780333718872 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
2 March, 2000 |
| Series: |
Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories |
| Pages: |
278 |
| Description: |
This challenge to critical orthodoxy argues that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age after the French Revolution. He attacked the binary thinking dominating public affairs and questioned the value of the Georgian domestic ideal, using the homeless to bear his message. |
| Synopsis: |
A witness to the French Revolution, Wordsworth knew the extremes of republican turmoil and the repressive panic it triggered in conservative British authorities. Toby Benis challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing the poet rejected the political dogma not only of aristocrats but also of political radicals. Wordsworth dramatizes his dissatisfaction with stifling doctrine, including the ideals of Georgian domesticity, through representations of the homeless at the margins of British society. The poet's early verse seizes on the ambiguous vagrant, perceived as both criminal and victim, to attack the binary thinking that dominated the social debates of his age and continues to skew our perceptions of him. Timely yet historically informed, Romanticism on the Road draws upon current discussions of homelessness as well as historical and legal documents to offer a cultural history of Georgian vagrancy and explain why Wordsworth chose the homeless to bear his message. |
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biography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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