A. Nichols

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The Revolutionary 'I' (eBook, PDF)

Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation

Beschreibung

In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar, William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as source texts for The Prelude . These lyrics are revolutionary because they construct a new version of the autobiographical 'I'. The Revolutionary 'I' explores the numerous voices of the poetic speaker 'Wordsworth' and their relationship to the historical figure who shared the same name.

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Autor

Ashton Nichols is Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 187
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 1998
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780230379237
• Artikelnr.: 45962877

Rezensionen

Ashton Nichols's The Revolutionary 'I ' trawls through versions of The Prelude up to and including the 1805 text in search of a fundamental Wordsworthian orgininality, which he believes is a generative source of most subsequent imaginative literature in English...he believes that Prelude breaks new autobiographical ground with its presentation of the I as a dramatized cultural self rather merely a mimetic revelation of identity.' - James Treadwell, The Wordsworth Circle