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BL
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991913
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b746283
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Main Entry
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Langan, Celeste.
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Title & Author
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Romantic vagrancy : : Wordsworth and the simulation of freedom /\ Celeste Langan.
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Publication Statement
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Cambridge [England] ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1995.
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Series Statement
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Cambridge studies in Romanticism ;; 15
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Page. NO
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x, 304 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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ISBN
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0521035104
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: 0521475074
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: 9780521035101
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: 9780521475075
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-299) and index.
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Contents
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Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- A methodological preamble -- Introduction -- Rousseau plays the beggar: the last words of citizen subject -- Money walks: Wordsworth and the right to wander -- Walking and talking at the same time: the 'two histories' of The Prelude (1805) -- The walking cure -- Index.
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Abstract
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Romantic Vagrancy offers a provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, by tracing a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of materials and the literally dispossessed beggars and vagrants he encounters. Reading Wordsworth - and Rousseau before him - from the perspective of current debates about the political and social rights of the homeless, Celeste Langan argues that both literature and vagrancy are surprisingly rich and disturbing images of the "negative freedom" at the heart of liberalism. Langan shows how the formal structure of the Romantic poem - the improvisational excursion - mirrors its apparent themes, often narratives of impoverishment of abandonment.
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According to Langan, the encounter between the beggar and the passerby in Wordsworth's poetry does not simply reveal a social conscience or its lack; it represents the advent of the liberal subject, whose identity is stretched out between origin and destination, caught between economic and political forces, and the workings of desire. Langan's powerful and innovative argument revises current views both of Wordsworth's poetry and of the relation of literature to its social and political context.
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Subject
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Political and social views.
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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778
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Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850
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Wordsworth, William,(1770-1850)-- Pensée politique et sociale.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Political and social views.
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Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Subject
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Homelessness in literature.
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Liberalism in literature.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.
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Poets in literature.
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Romanticism-- England.
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Walking in literature.
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Errance-- Dans la littérature.
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Heimatlosigkeit
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Homelessness in literature.
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Homelessness in literature.
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Imagination
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Landstreicher
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Landstreicher
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Liberalism in literature.
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Liberalism in literature.
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Literatur
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Literature and society-- Great Britain-- 19th century.
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Literature and society.
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Littérature et société-- Grande-Bretagne-- Angleterre (GB)-- 19e siècle.
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Lyrik
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Poets in literature.
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Poets in literature.
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Political and social views.
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Romanticism-- Great Britain.
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Romanticism.
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Romantik
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Schriftsteller
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Vagabondage (droit pénal)-- Dans la littérature.
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Vagabonds dans la littérature.
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Vagrancy in literature.
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Walking in literature.
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Walking in literature.
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Wandern
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Wandern
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England.
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Dewey Classification
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821/.7
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LC Classification
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PR5892.S58L35 1995
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NLM classification
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HL 4905rvk
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