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- catalog abstract "According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural dismemberment - a way for culture to imagine that it survives in the midst of its own destruction. In Wordsworthian Errancies, Collings challenges prevailing critical approaches to Romantic poetry by describing and critiquing this deconstructive account of culture in Wordsworth's poetry. Drawing ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory, Collings's reading reveals a radically new Wordsworth, one who is far more concerned with various "queer" modes of sexuality than previously suspected. In a provocative reading of The Prelude, for example, Collings argues that Wordsworth associated his poetic power with homoerotic masochistic fantasies and with his involuntary delight in traumatic events. He also redefines the debate concerning the politics of Wordsworth's poetry: disputing recent critics who claim that Wordsworth retreated from history into a poetry of the self, Collings argues instead that the very notion of the solitary, autobiographical subject derived from Wordsworth's sense of cultural trauma. The suspect dimension of Wordsworth's poetry, Collings concludes, is not its retreat from history but rather its claim that history is disaster.".
- catalog contributor b6523330.
- catalog created "c1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "c1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
- catalog description "According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural dismemberment - a way for culture to imagine that it survives in the midst of its own destruction. In Wordsworthian Errancies, Collings challenges prevailing critical approaches to Romantic poetry by describing and critiquing this deconstructive account of culture in Wordsworth's poetry. Drawing ideas from deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, feminism, and queer theory, Collings's reading reveals a radically new Wordsworth, one who is far more concerned with various "queer" modes of sexuality than previously suspected. In a provocative reading of The Prelude, for example, Collings argues that Wordsworth associated his poetic power with homoerotic masochistic fantasies and with his involuntary delight in traumatic events. He also redefines the debate concerning the politics of Wordsworth's poetry: disputing recent critics who claim that Wordsworth retreated from history into a poetry of the self, Collings argues instead that the very notion of the solitary, autobiographical subject derived from Wordsworth's sense of cultural trauma. The suspect dimension of Wordsworth's poetry, Collings concludes, is not its retreat from history but rather its claim that history is disaster.".
- catalog description "All track quite lost : errancy in the Salisbury Plain poems -- Passing beyond the visible world : self-wounding in The borderers -- "Oh misery! oh misery!" : masochistic repetition in "Incipient madness," The ruined cottage, and "The thorn" -- Ghastly mildness : reconfiguring errancy in "The discharged soldier," "The old Cumberland beggar," and The ruined cottage -- Characters of danger and desire : deviant authorship in the 1799 Prelude, part one -- Unfinished covenant : the disruption of tradition in "Michael" -- Destruction by deluge : nature against itself in The prelude -- A mockery of history : unreadable revolution.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-278) and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 287 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Wordsworthian errancies.".
- catalog identifier "0801848482 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wordsworthian errancies.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "c1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Wordsworthian errancies.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "821/.7 20".
- catalog subject "Culture in literature.".
- catalog subject "Literature and society England History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "PR5888 .C627 1994".
- catalog subject "Poetry Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature England.".
- catalog subject "Psychoanalysis and literature.".
- catalog subject "Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "All track quite lost : errancy in the Salisbury Plain poems -- Passing beyond the visible world : self-wounding in The borderers -- "Oh misery! oh misery!" : masochistic repetition in "Incipient madness," The ruined cottage, and "The thorn" -- Ghastly mildness : reconfiguring errancy in "The discharged soldier," "The old Cumberland beggar," and The ruined cottage -- Characters of danger and desire : deviant authorship in the 1799 Prelude, part one -- Unfinished covenant : the disruption of tradition in "Michael" -- Destruction by deluge : nature against itself in The prelude -- A mockery of history : unreadable revolution.".
- catalog title "Wordsworthian errancies : the poetics of cultural dismemberment / David Collings.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".