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Wordsworth's vagrants

by Bailey, Quentin,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: British literature in context in the long eighteenth century Published by : Ashgate, (Burlington, Vt. :) Physical details: 230 p.
Subject(s): Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Wordsworth, William, -- 1770-1850 -- Political and social views. | Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century. | English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism. | Social change in literature. | Prisons in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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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.

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