Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces

Wiley, M.

Grounded in historical sources and informed by recent work in cultural, sociological, geographical and spatial studies, Romantic Geography illuminates the nexus between imaginative literature and geography in William Wordsworth's poetry and prose. It shows that eighteenth-century social and political interest groups contested spaces through maps, geographical commentaries and travel literature; and that by configuring 'utopian' landscapes Wordsworth himself participated in major social and political controversies in post-French Revolutionary England.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1998-09-28

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333718902

DOI: 10.1057/9780230374263

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 212