Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment

By David Collings, David A. Collings, David Collings

According to David Collings, Wordsworth interpreted the outbreak of war between England and France in 1793 as a cataclysmic event, one whose utterly disfiguring effect he would trace in his work over the next decade. Expanding upon this extravagant interpretation of events, Collings argues, Wordsworth constructed a poetics of cultural dismemberment - a way for culture to imagine that it survives in the midst of its own destruction. In this book, Collings challenges prevailing critical approaches to Romantic poetry by describing and critiquing this deconstructive account of culture in Wordsworth's poetry.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801848482
• ISBN13: 9780801848483
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"