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Look Inside The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'

The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'

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Sally Bushell, Polly Atkin, Tim Fulford, Pete Newbon, Frances Ferguson, Paul H. Fry, Philip Shaw, Andrew Bennett, Susan Wolfson, Brennan O'Donnell, Alexander Regier, James C. McKusick, Joel Pace, Nikki Hessell
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  • Date Published: January 2020
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108402835

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  • Lyrical Ballads (1798) is a work of huge cultural and literary significance. The volume of poetry, in which Coleridge's Rime of the Ancyent Marinere and Wordsworth's Lines written above Tintern Abbey were first published, lies at the heart of British Romanticism, establishing a poetics of powerful feeling, that is, nonetheless, expressed in direct, conversational language and exploring the everyday realities of common life. This engaging, accessible collection provides a comprehensive overview of current approaches to Lyrical Ballads, enabling readers to find fresh ways of understanding and responding to the volume. Sally Bushell's introduction explores how the Preface to the second edition (1800) became a potent manifesto for the Romantic movement. Broad in scope, the Companion includes accessible essays on Wordsworth's experiments with language and metre, ecocritical approaches, the reception of the volume in America and more; furnishing students and scholars with a range of entry points to this seminal text.

    • Provides a clear and thorough introduction to a book that students on any Romanticism course will read, acting as a critical introduction allowing students to explore for themselves
    • The only collection to cover all aspects of this important work and all key themes within it, ranging across all three major editions
    • Recent critical approaches from a team of leading scholars contributing up-to-date approaches, continuing to make the collection fresh and relevant today
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    'This bright new Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' is a thoughtfully conceived and well-executed collection that illuminates the famous book from several angles.' Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle

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    • Date Published: January 2020
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108402835
    • length: 302 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 153 x 15 mm
    • weight: 0.5kg
    • availability: In stock

  • Table of Contents

    Part I. Part and Whole
    1. Wordsworth's 'Preface': A Manifesto for British Romanticism Sally Bushell
    2. Collaboration, Domestic Co-partnery and Lyrical Ballads Polly Atkin
    3. Coleridgean Contributions Tim Fulford
    4. Lyric Voice, Ballad Voice Pete Newbon
    Part II. Subjects and Situations from Common Life
    5. Conversation in Lyrical Ballads Frances Ferguson
    6. The Power of Things in Lyrical Ballads Paul H. Fry
    7. Marginal Figures Philip Shaw
    Part III. Feeling and Thought
    8. Silence and Sympathy in Lyrical Ballads Andrew Bennett
    9. Domestic Affections and the Home Susan Wolfson
    Part IV. Language and the Human Mind
    10. A 'Radical Difference': Wordsworth's Experiments in Language and Metre Brennan O'Donnell
    11. Awkward Relations: Poetry and Philosophy in Lyrical Ballads Alexander Regier
    Part V. A Global Lyrical Ballads
    12. Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads James C. McKusick
    13. Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America Joel Pace
    14. The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads Nikki Hessell.

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    Sally Bushell, Lancaster University
    Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. She has long had an interest in Wordsworth. Her first book, Re-Reading The Excursion (2002), sought to open up the text to new readings, followed by her co-editing of the Cornell Excursion (2007) and her second monograph: Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dickinson (2009), which explored the margins of textuality by developing a method for interpreting works in a state of process. A strong interest in place and space in literature has recently led her into research around the question of how the reader spatialises literature with a forthcoming monograph (Cambridge. 2020) on Reading and Mapping Fiction. She is also interested in digital and spatial projects for the mapping of literature and is PI on the AHRC-Funded project: Chronotopic Cartographies and has developed an educational project using Minecraft to map literary worlds (LITCRAFT).

    Contributors

    Sally Bushell, Polly Atkin, Tim Fulford, Pete Newbon, Frances Ferguson, Paul H. Fry, Philip Shaw, Andrew Bennett, Susan Wolfson, Brennan O'Donnell, Alexander Regier, James C. McKusick, Joel Pace, Nikki Hessell

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