Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern
The Poetics of Modernity
Part of Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
- Author: David Simpson, University of California, Davis
- Date Published: August 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403086
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This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress.
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Review of the hardback: 'This is an accomplished scholarly monograph, the importance of which cannot be overstated. By locating Wordsworth's poetics at the very heart of modernity, Simpson revitalizes and recontextualizes a poet who has too long languished in the heritage-industry lumber-room of middle England.' Philological Quarterly
See more reviews'David Simpson's gorgeously written, audacious study gives us a haunted Wordsworth, an occupant and observer of a modern capitalist world's 'ghost-ridden dark and twilight zones'.' Studies in Romanticism
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- Date Published: August 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107403086
- length: 292 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
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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