Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel: 113 (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 113)
Cambridge University Press, 7/7/2016
EAN 9781107155589, ISBN10: 1107155584
Hardcover, 300 pages, 23.5 x 16.5 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
At the heart of Wordsworth's concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach to experience - one that draws on habits in order to revise them in the shock of new - and as a poetic approach that gives voice to the singular and foreign through the unique shapes of verse. Close readings of Wordsworth's 'pictures of Nature, Man, and Society' show how the natural is entangled with - and not simply opposed to, as many critics have suggested - the social, the political and the historical in this verse. This book draws on both eighteenth-century anthropology and travel literature, and debates in modern critical theory, to highlight Wordsworth's remarkable originality and his ongoing ability to transform our theoretical prejudgements in the unknown territory of the travel encounter.
1. Salisbury Plain
2. Building, dwelling, embodying
3. 'The Discharged Soldier'
4. The commonwealth of song
5. Mimesis
6. 'Man working for himself'
7. Progress.