Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern : The Poetics of Modernity

Name: Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521898775
Price: 11700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521898775

by David Simpson

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

ISBN-10 0521898773

ISBN-13 9780521898775

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 19th, 2009

Print length 292 Pages

Weight 570 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets

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Leading critic David Simpson offers a reading of Wordsworth's poetry. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines Wordsworth's extraordinary and original response to the massive changes in the condition of the modern world at the turn of the nineteenth century.

This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress.

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