OHB WILLIAM WORDSWORTH OHBK C

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-966212-8
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 896 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1693 g

The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth deploys its forty-eight original essays, by an international team of scholar-critics, to present a stimulating account of Wordsworth's life and achievement and to map new directions in criticism. Nineteen essays explore the highlights of a long career systematically, giving special prominence to the lyric Wordsworth of Lyrical Ballads and the Poems in Two Volumes and to the blank verse poet of 'The Recluse'. Most of the other essays return to the poetry while exploring other dimensions of the life and work of the major Romantic poet. The result is a dialogic exploration of many major texts and problems in Wordsworth scholarship.

This uniquely comprehensive handbook is structured so as to present, in turn, Wordsworth's life, career, and networks; aspects of the major lyrical and narrative poetry; components of 'The Recluse'; his poetical inheritance and his transformation of poetics; the variety of intellectual influences upon his work, from classical republican thought to modern science; his shaping of modern culture in such fields as gender, landscape, psychology, ethics, politics, religion and ecology; and his 19th- and 20th-century reception-most importantly by poets, but also in modern criticism and scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gravil, Richard

Robinson, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Genius Loci

- Prelude: Of 'Daffodils' and 'Yew-Trees', Poems of Imagination

- Part I: Life, Career, and Networks

- 1: Nicholas Roe: The Early Life of William Wordsworth, 1770-1798

- 2: K. E. Smith: Wordsworth's Domestic Life, 1799-1850

- 3: Felicity James: Wordsworth and Literary Friendship

- 4: Brian Goldberg: Wordsworth as Professional Author

- 5: Christopher Simons: Itinerant Wordsworth

- 6: Simon Bainbridge: Wordsworth's Political Odyssey

- Part II: Poetry

- 7: Quentin Bailey: The Salisbury Plain Poems (1793-1842)

- 8: Frederick Burwick: The Borderers (1796-1842)

- 9: Daniel Robinson: Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798)

- 10: Susan J. Wolfson: 'Poem upon the Wye'; or, 'Lines, written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, On revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798'

- 11: Jason N. Goldsmith: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1800)

- 12: Gregory Leadbetter: The Lyric Impulse of Poems, in Two Volumes

- 13: Michael O'Neill: 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality'

- 14: Matthew Brennan: Wordsworth's Characters

- 15: Peter Manning: The White Doe of Rylstone and Later Narrative Poems

- 16: Daniel Robinson: The River Duddon and Wordsworth, Sonneteer

- 17: Fiona Stafford: Poetry and Place from An Evening Walk to Yarrow Revisited

- 18: Pamela Woof: Wordsworth's Later Poetry

- Part III: 'The Recluse'

- 19: Richard Gravil: The 'Recluse' Project and its Shorter Poems

- 20: Paul H. Fry: The Pedlar, the Poet, and 'The Ruined Cottage'

- 21: Anthony John Harding: The 'I' in The Prelude

- 22: Mark J. Bruhn: The Prelude as Philosophy

- 23: Philip Shaw: The Prelude as History

- 24: Jacob Risinger: The Excursion as Dialogic Poem

- Part IV: Poets and Poetics

- 25: Jonathon Shears: Wordsworth's English Poets

- 26: Duncan Wu: Wordsworth and Sensibility

- 27: Raimonda Modiano: Wordsworth's Poetic Theory

- 28: Alexander Schlutz: Wordsworth and Coleridge on 'Imagination'

- 29: Ruth Abbott: Wordsworth's Prosody

- 30: Charles Mahoney: Wordsworth's Experiments with Form and Genre

- 31: Don Bialostosky: Wordsworth's Communicative Strategies

- Part V: Inheritance and Legacy

- 32: John Cole: Wordsworth and Classical Humanism

- 33: Allison Dushane: Wordsworth and the Enlightenment

- 34: Marilyn Gaull: Wordsworth, Science, and Mathematics

- 35: James Heffernan: Wordsworth and Landscape

- 36: Terry McCormick: Wordsworth and Shepherds

- 37: Judith Page: Wordsworth on Gender and Sexuality

- 38: Stephen C. Behrendt: Wordsworth and Nation

- 39: Adam Potkay: Wordsworth's Ethical Thinking

- 40: Jonathan Roberts: Wordsworth on Religious Experience

- 41: Peter Newbon: Wordsworth, Child Psychology, and the Growth of the Mind

- 42: James Castell: Wordsworth and 'the Life of Things'

- Part VI: Reception

- 43: Matthew Scott: Wordsworth among the Romantics

- 44: Richard Gravil: 'Intimations' in America

- 45: John Powell Ward: Wordsworth and Twentieth-Century Poets

- 46: Andrew Bennett: Wordsworth in Modern Literary Criticism

- 47: Bruce E. Graver: Editing Wordsworth in the Twentieth Century

- Recommended Reading

Über Autor(innen)

After a career teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level in Canada, Poland, and England, Richard Gravil is now Chairman of The Wordsworth Conference Foundation and Commissioning Editor of Humanities-Ebooks. He is the author of Romantic Dialogues: Anglo-American Continuities, 1776-1862 (St Martin's Press, 2000); Wordsworth's Bardic Vocation: 1787-1842 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); and Wordsworth and Helen Maria Williams; or, the Perils of Sensibility (Humanities-Ebooks, 2010). For ten years he co-edited Symbiosis: a Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, and his numerous edited and co-edited books, including Master Narratives: Tellers and Telling in the English Novel (Ashgate, 2001) and The Republic of Poetry: Poetic Continuities from Bradstreet to Plath (a special issue of Symbiosis, 2003).

Daniel Robinson is Professor of English at Widener University. He is the co-editor (with Paula R. Feldman) of A Century of Sonnets: The Romantic-Era Revival, 1750-1850 (OUP, 1999) and (with William Richey) of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads and Related Writings (Houghton Mifflin, 2001); the editor of the complete poetry of Mary Robinson for The Works of Mary Robinson (Pickering and Chatto, 2009); and the author of William Wordsworth's Poetry (Continuum, 2010), The Poetry of Mary Robinson: Form and Fame (Palgrave, 2011), and Myself and Some Other Being: Wordsworth and the Life Writing (University of Iowa Press, 2014). He is working on a new edition of Wordsworth and Coleridge for Bloomsbury and is one of the team of editors working on OUP's forthcoming Anna Letitia Barbauld: Collected Works.