Romantic Vagrancy
Subtitle: Wordsworth and the Simulation of Freedom (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780521035101
Subjects: Poetry & poets: 19th century; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry / Single Author / British & Irish; Wordsworth, William, --1770-1850--Political a; Wordsworth, William,--1770-1850--Political and social views
First sentence: Of the features of Rousseau's corpus that compel a resurgent recognition of his critical and philosophical importance, none is as crucial nor as problematic as the imaginary fault line that separates his "political" or "public" writing from the autobiographical or ostensibly "private" documents.