This resourceful, thoughtful and informative book synthesises these various interests in a way that makes for a decidedly new and illuminating approach. We hear a lot these days about 'cultural studies': this is a cultural study of the very best kind.
Stephen Gill is Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. He is the author of William Wordsworth: A Life (OUP, 1989), and editor of William Wordsworth in the Oxford Authors series (OUP, 1984).