Romanticism on the road [Elektronisk resurs] the marginal gains of Wordsworth's homeless / Toby R. Benis.

• 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.

• 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. 
• '...Benis is excellent at describing the social and historical background to Wordsworth's early career, and the book contains some fascinating information...his presentation of contemporary political events remains fascinating and clearly written...the book is a valuable contribution to Wordsworth studies.' - John Hayden Baker, Times Literary Supplement. 

Ämnesord

Rogues and vagabonds in literature.  (LCSH)

Marginality, Social, in literature.  (LCSH)

Homeless persons in literature.  (LCSH)

Homelessness in literature.  (LCSH)

Tramps in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature and society  -- History -- 19th century -- England. (LCSH)

Romanticism  -- England. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

France  -- History -- Influence -- Revolution, 1789-1799. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Characters -- Homeless persons.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 -- Political and social views.

Klassifikation

LIT (ämneskategori)

821.7 (DDC)