| Wordsworth and the Empirical Dilemma Contributor(s): Hewitt, Regina L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820413585 ISBN-13: 9780820413587 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $62.65 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.7 |
| LCCN: 90-5912 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 254 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Departing from the familiar view of Wordsworth as an encomiast of shared ideas, this study finds him engaged in a revaluation of a consensual ideal privileged by most other heirs to British Empiricism. Hewitt argues that Wordsworth faced the isolating tendencies within his cultural tradition by accepting individual limits and that he devised a poetics to help his contemporaries explore how respect for individuality can foster a viable community. Insights from reader-response theories help Hewitt probe Wordsworth's involvement with his audience, develop new interpretations of poems from "An Evening Walk" to "The Excursion, " 1790's lyrics to 1820's sonnets, and offer a new perspective on Wordsworth's -egotism- and -decline-." |