Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern: The Poetics of Modernity

by David Simpson

2021-01-07 16:24:51

This 2009 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 ... Read more
This 2009 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. Less

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File size9.25 X 6.3 X 0.79 in
Print pages292
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date February 19, 2009
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521898775

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