Book section · March 31, 2016
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book describes a middle ground between the recognizability which can only be achieved by location within the canon and the renovation of criti ...
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Book section · March 31, 2016
This chapter starts with Blake's 'Visions of the Daughters of Albion', printed in 1793. Blake registers the fact that in such a society sexual energy is a threat to all 'fixed' boundaries and conventional order. Blake makes a connection between the wider s ...
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Book section · March 31, 2016
This chapter attempts to encourage reflection about such moves by looking at some of the ideological and social dimensions of the way Jane Austen hopes to educate the understanding and feelings of her characters and readers. Although Marilyn Butler has lit ...
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Book section · March 31, 2016
One of Coleridge's earliest surviving poems is an ode on the destruction of the Bastille. The poem displays some features which are worth noticing because they are not merely the product of youthful incompetence in the use of eighteenth-century modes of pe ...
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Book section · March 31, 2016
The dominant stream of commentary on William Wordsworth's work seems to have been much impressed by many Wordsworth's quest for such an 'illusion' was part and parcel of his model of man. This chapter describes Wordsworth's writing as seriously as he himse ...
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