Wordsworth, commodification and social concern :

Simpson, David, 1951-

Wordsworth, commodification and social concern : the poetics of modernity / David Simpson. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - viii, 278 p. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 79 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-273) and index.

Introduction. The ghost and the machine: spectral modernity -- 1. At the limits of sympathy -- 2. At home with homelessness -- 3. Figures in the mist -- 4. Timing modernity: around 1800 -- 5. The ghostliness of things -- 6. Living images, still lives -- 7. The scene of reading.

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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Knowledge--Social conditions.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Political and social views.


Social history in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--19th century.


Great Britain--Social conditions--19th century.

PR5892.S58 / S56 2009

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