Landscape, Liberty and Authority - Poetry, Criticism and Politics From Thomson to Wordsworth

Zusammenfassung Dr Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson! Cowper! Johnson! Wordsworth! Coleridge and others! showing how such descriptions formed part of a larger debate about liberty and authority! and offering connections between eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature and politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Thomson and Cowper: the 'stubborn country tam'd'?; 2. Johnson: the usurpations of virility; 3. Unreliable authorities? Squires, tourists and the picturesque; 4. Wordsworth: the politics of landscape; 5. Coleridge: fields of liberty; Index.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Tim Fulford, Tim (Nottingham Trent University) Fulford
• Mitarbeit: Howard Erskine-Hill (Herausgeber), John J. Richetti (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027427
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02742-7
• Seiten: 272
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft