Combining philosophical and historical commentary, as well as close readings of individual works, Mark Offord explores three interconnected aspects of Wordsworth's writings: his interest in travel, his engagement with the concept of 'states of nature', and his attentiveness to the natural and material as a form of language.
At the heart of Wordsworth''s concerns is the question of how travel - both foreign and everyday - might also become an adventure into philosophy itself. This is an art of travel both as an approach to experience - one that draws on habits in order to revise them in the shock of new - and as a poetic approach that gives voice to the singular and foreign through the unique shapes of verse. Close readings of Wordsworth''s ''pictures of Nature, Man, and Society'' show how the natural is entangled with - and not simply opposed to, as many critics have suggested - the social, the political and the historical in this verse. This book draws on both eighteenth-century anthropology and travel literature, and debates in modern critical theory, to highlight Wordsworth''s remarkable originality and his ongoing ability to transform our theoretical prejudgements in the unknown territory of the travel encounter.
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