Bailey, Quentin, 1972-
Wordsworth's vagrants police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s / [electronic resource] : by Quentin Bailey. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011. - 230 p. - British literature in context in the long eighteenth century . - British literature in context in the long eighteenth century. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed' -- A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england -- 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795 -- A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems -- 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers -- 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering -- 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads -- 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge -- Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Political and social views.
Literature and society--History--England--18th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--18th century
Social change in literature.
Prisons in literature.
Electronic books.
PR5892.S58 / B35 2011eb
821/.7
Wordsworth's vagrants police, prisons and poetry in the 1790s / [electronic resource] : by Quentin Bailey. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2011. - 230 p. - British literature in context in the long eighteenth century . - British literature in context in the long eighteenth century. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed' -- A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england -- 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795 -- A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems -- 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers -- 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering -- 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads -- 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge -- Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850 --Political and social views.
Literature and society--History--England--18th century.
English poetry--History and criticism.--18th century
Social change in literature.
Prisons in literature.
Electronic books.
PR5892.S58 / B35 2011eb
821/.7