Wordsworth's counterrevolutionary turn : community, virtue, and vision in the 1790s
"This book engages a controversy over the relation between Wordsworth's poetry and his politics that dates back to the early reviews of the Lyrical Ballads, but has never been more hotly debated than in the last decade. Unlike some influential recent commentators on Wordsworth's politics, John Rieder argues that Wordsworth's poetry achieves its power not by suppressing social and political aims, but rather by projecting a fantasy of community that finds its material counterpart far more in the literature itself than in the rural occupations or natural scenes Wordsworth depicts." "Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1997
History
273 pages ; 24 cm
9780874136104, 0874136105
36051347
1. Wordsworth's Community of Recognition
2. Wordsworth's Ethos: Violence, Alienation, and Middle-Class Virtue
3. The Economy of Vision
4. Civic Virtue and Social Class at the Scene of Execution: The Salisbury Plain Poems
5. The Politics of Theatricality and the Crime of Abandonment in The Borderers
6. Framing The Ruined Cottage
7. "Therefore Am I Still": The Poet's Authority in "Tintern Abbey"
Conclusion: Originality, Sympathy, and the Critique of Ideology
App. The Versions of The Ruined Cottage
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