Wordsworth's profession : form, class, and the logic of early romantic cultural production
In exploring Wordsworth's professionalization as a writer, the author's interpretations are coordinated by a single, albeit highly ramified, critical hypothesis: that Romanticism's aesthetic forms afforded the middle classes an imaginary furlough from the impinging consciousness of their tenuous socioeconomic status.
Print Book, English, 1997
Stanford University Press, Stanford (Calif.), 1997
XII, 454 p. ill. 24 cm
9780804729024, 0804729026
1014968668
Introduction 1. Description: picturesque aesthetics and the production of the English Middle Class, 1730-1798 2. Instruction: romantic theories of elemental and cultural literacy and the Lyrical Ballads 3. Vocation: automimesis and the political economy of spirit and body in The Prelude Notes Bibliography Index.