William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution in England, 1750-1850
Author: Mark Keay
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 448
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William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution
Author: M. Keay
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001-09-26
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1403919569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking. His 'Golden Age ideal' of pastoral life and rural relationships falls within the scope of English 'populism' as found among the middle ranks of small independent producers and their idealogues. Furthermore his rural education and up-bringing in the remote North of England explain his long-term shift from radical and whig reformer to tory placeman in the years 1789 to 1832 as well as his relative demise as a poet.
William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship
Author: Scott Hess
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0813932319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth’s defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship": a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite—factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.
The Life of William Wordsworth
Author: John Worthen
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 535
ISBN-13: 111860492X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy examining the family and financial circumstances of Wordsworth’s early years, this illuminating biography reshapes our understanding of the great Romantic poet’s most creative period of life and writing. Features new research into Wordsworth’s financial situation, and into how the poet and his family survived financially Offers a new understanding of the role of his great unwritten poem ‘The Recluse’ Presents a new assessment of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge
The Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890
Author: M. Baer
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-07-25
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 1137035293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rise and Fall of Radical Westminster, 1780-1890 explores a critical chapter in the story of Britain's transition to democracy. Utilising the remarkably rich documentation generated by Westminster elections, Baer reveals how the most radical political space in the age of oligarchy became the most conservative and tranquil in an age of democracy.
The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson
Author: J. Clark
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-06-12
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1137264721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major academic controversy has raged in recent years over the analysis of the political and religious commitments of Samuel Johnson, the most commanding of the 'commanding heights' of eighteenth-century English letters. This book, one of a trilogy from Palgrave, brings that debate to a decisive conclusion, retrieving the 'historic Johnson.'
Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786
Author: J. Bell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-30
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1137327928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England's first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
Landscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800
Author: R. Mayhew
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004-03-15
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0230504191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLandscape, Literature and English Religious Culture, 1660-1800 offers a powerful revisionist account of the intellectual significance of landscape descriptions during the 'long' Eighteenth-century. Landscape has long been a major arena for debate about the nature of Eighteenth-century English culture; this book surveys those debates and offers a provocative new account. Mayhew shows that describing landscape was a religiously contested practice, and that different theological positions led differing authors to different descriptive approaches. Landscape description, then, shows English intellectual life still in the grips of a Christian and classical mentality in the 'long' Eighteenth-century.
Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain
Author: F. Parsons
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-07-30
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0230244661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a history of the emergence and development of the concept of proportional representation and its relation to political theory within the context of nineteenth-century British party politics focusing on Thomas Hare (1806-1891).
Ordering the World in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Frank O'Gorman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-12-14
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0230518885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Eighteenth century is often represented, applying Tom Paine's phrase, as 'The Age of Reason': an age when progressive ideals triumphed over autocracy and obscurantism, and when notions of order and balance shaped consciousness in every sphere of human knowledge. Yet the debates which surrounded the development of Eighteenth-century thought were always open to troubling doubts. Was nature itself truly an ordered entity, as Newton had argued, or was it a mass of chaotic, randomly moving atoms, as some materialist thinkers believed? This book explores the tensions and conflicts in these debates through a series of interdisciplinary essays from leading international scholars, each challenging the idea that the Eighteenth century was an age of order.
