Revolutionary 'I'

Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

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In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar, William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as source texts for "The Prelude". These lyrics are revolutionary because they reconstruct a new version of the autobiographical "I". This work explores the many voices of the poetic speaker "Wordsworth" and their relationship to the historical figure who shared the same name.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-07-08
Mått140 x 216 x 16 mm
Vikt413 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRomanticism in Perspective:Texts, Cultures, Histories
Antal sidor187
Upplaga1998
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780333718896

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Preface: The Prelude as Prologue Silencing the (Other) Self: Wordsworth as 'Wordsworth!' in 'There was a boy' The Politics of Self Presentation: Wordsworth as Revolutionary Actor in a Literary Drama Sounds into Speech: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 as Dialogic Dramatic Monologue Coleridge as Catalyst to Autobiography: The Wordsworthian Self as Therapeutic Gift, 1804-1805 Dialogizing Dorothy: Voicing the Feminine as Spousal Sister in The Prelude Colonizing Consciousness: Culture as Identity in Wordsworth's Prelude and Walcott's Another Life Endnotes Bibliography Index

Ashton Nichols's The Revolutionary 'I' trawls through versions of The Prelude up to and including the 1805 text in search of a fundamental Wordsworthian orgininality, which he believes is a generative source of most subsequent imaginative literature in English...he believes that Prelude breaks new autobiographical ground with its presentation of the I as a dramatized cultural self rather merely a mimetic revelation of identity.' - James Treadwell, The Wordsworth Circle