Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s

Wordsworth's Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s
ISBN-10
0874136105
ISBN-13
9780874136104
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
284
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Author
John Rieder

Description

Arguing throughout that Wordsworth's originality springs from his invention and elaboration of a peculiarly literary form of community, Rieder maintains that the didactic element in Wordsworth's concept of community was doomed to irrelevance by the course of English economic and social development. Yet, Wordsworth's writing became enormously influential, not by virtue of the agrarian community it envisioned, but rather by virtue of the literary form of community it modeled and produced in its dissemination.

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