Romantic Vagrancy: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Series)
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A provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, Romantic Vagrancy traces a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of material and the literally dispossessed vagrants and beggars he encounters. Reading Wordsworth - and Rousseau before him - from the perspective of recent debates about the political and social rights of the homeless, Celeste Langan argues that both literature and vagrancy are surprisingly...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521035104
ISBN13:9780521035101
Release Date:December 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:316 Pages
Weight:1.02 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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