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1011519
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b765889
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Simpson, David,1951-
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Wordsworth, commodification and social concern : : the poetics of modernity /\ David Simpson.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, UK ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;; 79
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1 online resource (viii, 278 pages).
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0511506953
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: 0511508417
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: 0511576129
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: 0521898773
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: 9780511506956
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: 9780511508417
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: 9780511576126
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: 9780521898775
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9781107403086 (paperback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction. The ghost and the machine: spectral modernity -- 1. At the limits of sympathy -- 2. At home with homelessness -- 3. Figures in the mist -- 4. Timing modernity: around 1800 -- 5. The ghostliness of things -- 6. Living images, still lives -- 7. The scene of reading.
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| Abstract
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"This new reading of Wordsworth's poetry, by leading critic David Simpson, centers 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 labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of the 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."--Jacket.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Knowledge-- Social conditions.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Political and social views.
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Wordsworth, William
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Social change in literature.
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Social history in literature.
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Industrialisierung
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Leben
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Literature and society.
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Natur
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POETRY-- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Political and social views.
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Social change in literature.
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Social conditions.
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Social history in literature.
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Tod
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Consumptiemaatschappij.
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Engels.
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Gedichten.
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Sociale verandering.
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Great Britain, Social conditions, 19th century.
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England.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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821/.7
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| LC Classification
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PR5892.S58S56 2009
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| NLM classification
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18.05bcl
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