Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing
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2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-48001-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-48001-7 (ISBN)
Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of much recent academic and popular interest. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in Romantic texts from the canonical to the ephemeral, illuminating the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.
Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of huge academic and popular interest in the last few years. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in one of its most obvious locations within English literature: Romanticism. Through chapters focusing on both canonical and non-canonical writings – including rich ephemera – by Joseph Cottle, Coleridge, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, de Quincey and John Clare, Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing draws out a specific focus on affect studies and the relationship between walking and trauma, examining the relationship between emotional states and movement through space and time. It also takes up the work of lesser-known Romantic writers such as Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Wilkinson in order to mount a broad and deep exploration of the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.
Walking and its relationship to our mental and cultural lives has been a topic of huge academic and popular interest in the last few years. Here, Alan Vardy explores the role of walking in one of its most obvious locations within English literature: Romanticism. Through chapters focusing on both canonical and non-canonical writings – including rich ephemera – by Joseph Cottle, Coleridge, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, de Quincey and John Clare, Time and Terrain in British Romantic Writing draws out a specific focus on affect studies and the relationship between walking and trauma, examining the relationship between emotional states and movement through space and time. It also takes up the work of lesser-known Romantic writers such as Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Wilkinson in order to mount a broad and deep exploration of the quotidian, fleeting events that nonetheless constitute our subjective selves.
Alan Vardy is the author of John Clare, Politics and Poetry (2003) and Constructing Coleridge: The Posthumous Life of the Author (2010). He is the editor-in-chief of Essays in Romanticism (since 2011) and the author of numerous articles and chapters on Romantic writers, including 'Coleridge the Walker' in The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022).
Preface; Introduction; Part I. Joseph Cottle: Recollection, Reminiscence, and the Forms of Circulation; Part II. Walking, Climbing, Descending: Negotiating the Landscape; Part III. Casting About: Thomas De Quincey in the World; Part IV. Clare and Dislocation; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-48001-4 / 1009480014 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-48001-7 / 9781009480017 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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