William Wordsworth - The Prelude

ISBN-13: 9780230500822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 192 str.

Timothy Milnes

Opis

The Prelude is now seen as a central text in the Wordsworth corpus. This Guide identifies and gathers significant critical perspectives, interpretations and debates connected with the poem, contextualising and explaining criticism from the Victorian period right through to the present day.

Spis treści

Introduction.- In the Cathedral Ruins: The Prelude from Conception to Criticism.- Revaluations: The Early Twentieth Century.- Style, Philosophy, and Phenomenology: From the 1950s to the 1970s.- Writing the Self: Deconstruction, Feminism and Psychoanalysis from the 1970s to the 1990s.- Spots of Time: The New Historicism in the 1980s and 1990s.- The Prelude and the Present.- Conclusion: The Prelude Revisited.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

TIM MILNES is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He has published widely on the English Romantic poets and essayists, and his previous publications include Knowledge and Indifference in English Romantic Prose (2003).

Blurb

The Prelude is William Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem. Commenced in 1798, and periodically expanded and revised throughout Wordsworth's life, it was published in 1850 after the poet's death.

This Reader's Guide:

• begins with a discussion of the complex textual history of The Prelude
• covers the full range of critical responses surrounding the poem, from the first Victorian reviewers to Modernist polemicists, and from the 'theory wars' of the 1970s and 1980s to the emergence of recent 'green' criticism
• identifies and gathers significant critical perspectives, interpretations and debates connected with the work, contextualising and explaining the material under discussion.

Comprehensive and approachable, this is an invaluable introduction to a widely-studied work which has come to assume a central place in Wordsworth's literary output.