Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-273) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction. The ghost and the machine: spectral modernity -- 1. At the limits of sympathy -- 2. At home with homelessness -- 3. Figures in the mist -- 4. Timing modernity: around 1800 -- 5. The ghostliness of things -- 6. Living images, still lives -- 7. The scene of reading.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"This new reading of Wordsworth's poetry, by leading critic David Simpson, centers on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labor and urbanization; and the expanding power of the commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress."--Jacket.
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205853
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Title
Wordsworth, commodification and social concern.
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9780521898775
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Criticism and interpretation.
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Knowledge-- Social conditions.
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850-- Political and social views.
Wordsworth, William
Wordsworth, William,1770-1850.
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Literature and society-- England-- History-- 19th century.