Romantic Writing and Pedestrian Travel

ISBN-13: 9780333794609 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 246 str.

R. Jarvis

Opis

This text is an exploration of the relationship between walking and writing. Robin Jarvis here reconstructs the scene of walking, both in Britain and on the Continent, in the 1790s. He then discusses the impact of this cultural revolution on the creativity of major Romantic writers.

Spis treści

Preface The Rise of Pedestrianism An Anatomy of the Pedestrian Traveller Pedestrianism and Peripatetic Form William Wordsworth: Pedestrian Poet 'Indolence Capable of Energies': Coleridge the Walker Gender, Class, and Walking: Dorothy Wordsworth and John Clare Walking and Talking: Late-Romantic Voices Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

ROBIN JARVIS is a Principal Lecturer and Head of Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He previously taught at Lancaster University and King Alfred's College, Winchester. His publications include Wordsworth, Milton and the Theory of Poetic Relations and (as co-editor) Reviewing Romanticism.