Celeste Langan: Romantic Vagrancy

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Romantic Vagrancy offers a provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, by tracing a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of materials and the literally dispossessed beggars and vagrants he encounters. Reading Wordsworth - and Rousseau before him - from the perspective of current debates about the political and social rights of the homeless, Celeste Langan argues that both literature and vagrancy are surprisingly rich and disturbing images of the "negative freedom" at the heart of liberalism. Langan shows how the formal structure of the Romantic poem - the improvisational excursion - mirrors its apparent themes, often narratives of impoverishment of abandonment. According to Langan, the encounter between the beggar and the passerby in Wordsworth's poetry does not simply reveal a social conscience or its lack; it represents the advent of the liberal subject, whose identity is stretched out between origin and destination, caught between economic and political forces, and the workings of desire. Langan's powerful and innovative argument revises current views both of Wordsworth's poetry and of the relation of literature to its social and political context.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; A methodological preamble; Introduction; 1. Rousseau plays the beggar: the last words of citizen subject; 2. Money walks: Wordsworth and the right to wander; 3. Walking and talking at the same time: the 'two histories' of The Prelude; 4. The walking cure; Notes; Works cited; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2006
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9780521035101
ISBN-10:	0521035104
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Langan, Celeste Celeste, Langan
Redaktion:	Butler, Marilyn
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Celeste Langan (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.12.2006
Gewicht:	0,515 kg