Global Wordsworth - Romanticism Out of Place

Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth's poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth's career and its place in the canon.

List of contents

Illustrations ... iv

Abbreviations ... vii

Introduction ... 1

One           The Global Routes of Daffodils ... 37

Two           Landscape Pedagogy in J. M. Coetzee, The Prelude, and the Lucy Poems ... 74

Three         Globalizing England: Lydia Maria Child and The Excursion ... 147

Four           Localism Unrooted: Jamaica Kincaid and the Guide to the Lakes ... 221

Conclusion ... 282

Acknowledgments ... 291

Bibliography ... 293

Index ... 321

About the Author ... 322

 

About the author

Katherine Bergren is an assistant professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Summary

Examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth's poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialogue with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherine Bergren revitalizes our understanding of Wordsworth's career and its place in the canon.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Bergren
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781684480128
• ISBN: 978-1-68448-012-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies