Excursion and Wordsworths Iconography

Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently 'collateral', makes crucial contributions to his central arguments and preoccupations in The Excursion, as well as in his other major works.

About the author

Brandon C. Yen is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is co-author (with Peter Dale) of Wordsworth's Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise (2018).

Summary

Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth’s other major works, including The Prelude. Yen explores Wordsworth’s iconography in The Excursion by tracing allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth’s prose and poetry.

Product details

• Authors: Brandon C. Yen
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781800856639
• ISBN: 978-1-80085-663-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture 1780-1850
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies