Impure conceits : rhetoric and ideology in Wordsworth's Excursion
This text aims to redefine the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian".
Print Book, English, 1997
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1997
XII, 237 p. ill. 24 cm
9780804729710, 0804729719
1015090419
Introduction: Wordsworth's doing and undoing; 1. What I seek I cannot find: The Excursion and its wandering philosophy'; 2. The mine of real life: economies of narrative; 3. Informing the mind: Wordsworth and the spectacle of education; 4. Incorporating the blank: Wordsworth's imperial imagination; Conclusion: dark foundations; Notes; Index.