Romanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories: The Marginal Gains of Wordsworth's Homeless

Benis, T.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2000-03-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333718872

DOI: 10.1057/9780230599468

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 278