Wordsworth's vagrants
Subtitle: police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s
By: by Quentin Bailey
Series: British literature in context in the long eighteenth century
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781409427056; 9781409427063
Subjects: Prisons in literature; Literature and society; Social change in literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Political and social views; English poetry; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed'; title: A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england; title: 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795; title: A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems; title: 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers; title: 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering; title: 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads; title: 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge; title: Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'.