Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel by Mark Offord

Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel by Mark Offord

At the heart of Wordsworth's concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach to experience - one that draws on habits in order to revise them in the shock of new - and as a poetic approach that gives voice to the singular and foreign through the unique shapes of verse. Close readings of Wordsworth's 'pictures of Nature, Man, and Society' show how the natural is entangled with - and not simply opposed to, as many critics have suggested - the social, the political and the historical in this verse. This book draws on both eighteenth-century anthropology and travel literature, and debates in modern critical theory, to highlight Wordsworth's remarkable originality and his ongoing ability to transform our theoretical prejudgements in the unknown territory of the travel encounter.

'Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel is, in my opinion, one of the best books on Wordsworth of the past ten years' Adam Potkay, Studies in Romanticism
'Offord's book … offers genuine hope, opening new avenues into the reading of Wordsworth's poetry. Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel is an incisive, theoretically deft, historically well-informed account of this poetry.' Michael Wiley, Wordsworth Circle

Mark Offord teaches at the University of Cambridge.

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ISBN 13	9781316609347
ISBN 10	1316609340
Title	Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
Author	Mark Offord
Series	Cambridge Studies In Romanticism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2018-12-20
Number of pages	291
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