Title Landscape, liberty and authority : poetry, criticism and politics from Thomson to Wordsworth / Tim Fulford

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) Series Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 30 Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; 30 Contents 1. Thomson and Cowper: the 'stubborn Country tam'd'? -- 2. Johnson: the usurpations of virility -- 3. Unreliable authorities? Squires, tourists and the picturesque -- 4. Wordsworth: the politics of landscape -- 5. Coleridge: fields of liberty Summary Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, revealing tensions that arose as writers struggled for authority over the public sphere and sought to redefine the nature of that authority. In his investigation of poetry and political and aesthetic writing, Dr Fulford throws light on the legacy of Commonwealth and Country-party ideas of liberty. Also discussed are the significance of the Miltonic sublime, the politics of the picturesque and the post-colonial encounter of the Scottish tour. Dr Fulford goes on to show how the early radicalism and later conservatism of Wordsworth and Coleridge were shaped, in part, by eighteenth-century literary political and literary authorities. His study offers an understanding of literary and political influence that cuts across conventional periodization, finding new links between the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record In ACLS Humanities E-Book. Subject English poetry -- 18th century -- History and criticism Landscapes in literature. Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Political poetry, English -- History and criticism Picturesque, The, in literature. Authority in literature. Description (Rhetoric) Liberty in literature. descriptions (documents) descriptive note. description (activity) Authority in literature Description (Rhetoric) English poetry Landscapes in literature Liberty in literature Picturesque, The, in literature Political poetry, English Politics and literature Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 95040538 ISBN 9780521024727 0511821433 9780511821431 0511519001 9780511519000 0521024722 9780521024723

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