Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern

The Poetics of Modernity

By:

David Simpson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

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This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres 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 labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of 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.

Release date Australia

August 18th, 2011

Author

David Simpson

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

292

Series

Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Dimensions

152x229x16

ISBN-13

9781107403086

Product ID

10823495

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