The excursion and Wordsworth's iconography
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The excursion and Wordsworth's iconography
（Romantic reconfigurations : studies in literature and culture 1780-1850）
Liverpool University Press, 2021
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First published 2018
"This paperback edition first published 2021"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers William Wordsworth's use of iconography in his long poem The Excursion. Through the iconographical approach, the author steers a middle course between The Excursion's two very different interpretive traditions, one focusing upon the poem's philosophical abstraction, the other upon its touristic realism. Fresh readings are also offered of Wordsworth's other major works, including The Prelude.
Yen explores Wordsworth's iconography in The Excursion by tracing allusions and correspondences in an abundance of post-1789 and earlier verbal and pictorial sources, as well as in Wordsworth's prose and poetry. He analyses how the iconographical images in The Excursion contribute to, and impose limitations on, the overarching preoccupations of Wordsworth's writings, particularly the themes of paradise lost and paradise regained in the post-revolutionary context. Shedding light on a vital aspect of Wordsworth's poetic method, this study reveals the visual etymologies - together with the nuances and rhetorical capacities - of five categories of apparently 'collateral' images: envisioning, rooting, dwelling, flowing, and reflecting.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
IntroductionPart 1: Themes and Iconography
The Excursion, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained
Wordsworth's IconographyPart 2: Envisioning
Introduction
Castles in the Air
Light and Ascent
'Speculative Height'
The Wanderer's RevisitingPart 3: Rooting
Introduction
Oak, Mountain Ash, the Liberty Tree
Two Ironic Images
A Cosmopolitan VisionPart 4: Dwelling
Introduction
The Devon Cottage and the Lakeland Cottage
The Cottage of the 'Wedded Pair'
The Widower's Cottage
The 'Cabinet for Sages Built'Part 5: Flowing and Reflecting
Introduction
Flowing
ReflectingBibliographyIndex
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