Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and social ambitions, and eventually developed his celebrated poetic campaign in response to its enthusiasms. But how should that response be understood? Combining careful interpretive analysis with wide-ranging historical scholarship, Chandler presents a challenging new account of the political views implicit in Wordsworth's major works in "The Prelude, " above all, but also in the central lyrics and shorter narrative poems. Central to the...
Wordsworth is England's greatest poet of the French Revolution: he witnessed some of its events first hand, participated in its intellectual and socia...
In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. The sentimental mode went on to shape not just literature, art, music, and cinema, but people s very structures of feeling, their ways of doing and being.In what is sure to become a critical classic, "An Archaeology of Sympathy "challenges Sergei Eisenstein s influential account of Dickens and early American film by tracing the unexpected history and intricate strategies of the sentimental mode and showing how it has been reimagined over the past...
In the middle of the eighteenth century, something new made itself felt in European culture a tone or style that came to be called the sentimental. Th...
