Wordsworth And The Passions Of Critical Poetics Hardcover
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Stuart Allen
Book Description
This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry a critical instrument that, through acute feeling, can evaluate public and private life.
ISBN-13
9780230248175
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Publication Date
15 Sep 2010
Number of Pages
191
About the Author
Stuart Allen is Assistant Professor of English at Bridgewater State College, Massachusetts, USA. He has published articles on Wordsworth, Romanticism and James Joyce.
Editorial Review
Wordsworth's push and pull through emotional turbulence to conciliatory consciousness, alienation into affection, is sharply explored by Allen throughout the study and his simultaneous focus on the aesthetic, political, affective and material through both historical philosophy and modern theory keeps the book lively and percipient throughout. - Emma Mason, Warwick University, UK