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Alison Hickey - Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's Excursion - 9780804729710 - V9780804729710
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Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's Excursion

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Description for Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's Excursion Hardcover. This text aims to redefine the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian". Num Pages: 252 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 555.

This book redefines the place of the Wordsworthian imagination in a cultural moment often classified as the transition from "Romantic" to "Victorian." Taking The Excursion and a constellation of related texts as a framework, the book suggests that the staggering critical neglect of Wordsworth's major project is correlated with the persistent inability of literary historians to chart that transition. To understand this elusive phase of literary and cultural history, the author proposes, we need to understand Wordsworth's role in it.

The book reevaluates the significance of The Excursion, both in Wordsworth's corpus and in the contexts of the French Revolution ... Read more

Foregrounding problems of rhetorical interpretation as The Excursion's central concern, this study focuses on the implications of these problems for the text's promotion of a social vision. It examines various figural systems—family narratives, property, education, and imperialism—and shows how diverse critical strategies of assimilating poetic text to doctrine meet with a resistant "blankness" at the heart of the figural production of meaning in the poem. This blankness is suggestive of the gap between Wordsworth's poetry and its simple appropriation by cultural or political analysis. Paradoxically it also suggests that an understanding of the dynamics of poetic figuration is crucially relevant to any study of Wordsworth's social and political theory.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
Number of Pages
252
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804729710
SKU
V9780804729710
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Reviews for Impure Conceits: Rhetoric and Ideology in Wordsworth's Excursion
"Hickey shows us what we have all been missing by accepting uncritically the dismissal of The Excursion. . . . She throws doors open in many directions. The writing is a model of how to conduct highly sophisticated argument in lucid prose." —Peter Manning, University of Southern California. "Impure Conceits is an important book, persuasive in many of its central ... Read more

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