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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Romanticism on the Road: The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless

Romanticism on the Road: The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless

Benis, T.

Hardcover

Series: Romanticism in Perspective: Texts, Cultures, Histories

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0333718879
ISBN13: 9780333718872
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Mar 2 2000
Pages: 278
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Romanticism on the Road challenges critical orthodoxy by arguing that Wordsworth rejected the political dogmas of his age. Refusing to ally with either radicals or conservatives after the French Revolution, the poet seizes on vagrants to attack the binary thinking dominating public affairs and to question the value of the Georgian domestic ideal. Drawing on current and historical discussions of homelessness, the study offers a cultural history of vagrancy and explains why Wordsworth chose the homeless to bear his message.

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