Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's 'Excursion'

by Alison Hickey

Book Overview

This book redefines the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian." Taking The Excursion and a constellation of related texts as a framework, the book suggests that the staggering critical neglect of Wordsworth's major project is correlated with the persistent inability of literary historians to chart that transition. To understand this elusive phase of literary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729719
• ISBN13: 9780804729710
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"