TY  - BOOK
AU  - Simpson,David
TI  - Wordsworth, commodification and social concern: the poetics of modernity 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Romanticism
SN  - 0521898773
AV  - PR5892.S58 S56 2009
U1  - 821/.7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Wordsworth, William,
KW  - Wordsworth, William
KW  - Social history in literature
KW  - Social change in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Histoire sociale dans la littérature
KW  - Changement social dans la littérature
KW  - Littérature et société
KW  - Angleterre
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 19e siècle
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Political and social views
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Leben
KW  - Motiv
KW  - gnd
KW  - Tod
KW  - Industrialisierung
KW  - Natur
KW  - Sociale verandering
KW  - gtt
KW  - Consumptiemaatschappij
KW  - Gedichten
KW  - Engels
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
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