Wordsworth, commodification and social concern : the poetics of modernity /
Simpson, David, 1951-
Wordsworth, commodification and social concern : the poetics of modernity / David Simpson. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 79 . - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
Introduction. The ghost and the machine: spectral modernity -- 1. At the limits of sympathy -- 2. At home with homelessness -- 3. Figures in the mist -- 4. Timing modernity: around 1800 -- 5. The ghostliness of things -- 6. Living images, still lives -- 7. The scene of reading.
"This new reading of Wordsworth's poetry, by leading critic David Simpson, centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of the commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress."--Jacket
English.
0521898773 (cloth) 9780521898775 (cloth) 9780511508417 (electronic bk.) 0511508417 (electronic bk.) 9780511506956 0511506953 9780511576126 (ebook) 0511576129 (paperback) 1107403081 9781107403086 1107202205 9781107202207 1282058533 9781282058538 0511507755 9780511507755 9786612058530 6612058536 0511504810 9780511504815 0511509073 9780511509070
9786612058530
205853 MIL
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Knowledge--Social conditions.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Political and social views.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --analys och tolkning.
Wordsworth, William Schriftsteller.
1800-1899
Social history in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.
Histoire sociale dans la littérature.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Angleterre--19e siècle.
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
Social change in literature.
Social conditions.
Social history in literature.
Leben
Tod
Industrialisierung
Natur
Sociale verandering.
Consumptiemaatschappij.
Gedichten.
Engels.
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Grande-Bretagne--Conditions sociales--19e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR5892.S58 / S56 2009
821/.7
Wordsworth, commodification and social concern : the poetics of modernity / David Simpson. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (viii, 278 pages) - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 79 . - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 79. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
Introduction. The ghost and the machine: spectral modernity -- 1. At the limits of sympathy -- 2. At home with homelessness -- 3. Figures in the mist -- 4. Timing modernity: around 1800 -- 5. The ghostliness of things -- 6. Living images, still lives -- 7. The scene of reading.
"This new reading of Wordsworth's poetry, by leading critic David Simpson, centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of the commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress."--Jacket
English.
0521898773 (cloth) 9780521898775 (cloth) 9780511508417 (electronic bk.) 0511508417 (electronic bk.) 9780511506956 0511506953 9780511576126 (ebook) 0511576129 (paperback) 1107403081 9781107403086 1107202205 9781107202207 1282058533 9781282058538 0511507755 9780511507755 9786612058530 6612058536 0511504810 9780511504815 0511509073 9780511509070
9786612058530
205853 MIL
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Knowledge--Social conditions.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Political and social views.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --analys och tolkning.
Wordsworth, William Schriftsteller.
1800-1899
Social history in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.
Histoire sociale dans la littérature.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Littérature et société--Histoire--Angleterre--19e siècle.
POETRY--English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Literature and society.
Political and social views.
Social change in literature.
Social conditions.
Social history in literature.
Leben
Tod
Industrialisierung
Natur
Sociale verandering.
Consumptiemaatschappij.
Gedichten.
Engels.
Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.
Grande-Bretagne--Conditions sociales--19e siècle.
England.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PR5892.S58 / S56 2009
821/.7