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Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation
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Full Title:
Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin: Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Modalities of Fragmentation
Contributors:
By (Author) Thomas McFarland
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
821.7
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
468
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
624g
Description
Despite their hopeful aspirations to wholeness in life and spirit, Thomas McFarland contends, the Romantics were ruins amidst ruins," fragments of human existence in a disintegrating world. Focusing on Wordsworth and Coleridge, Professor McFarland shows how this was true not only for each of these Romantics in particular but also for Romanticism in
