This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres 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:
| ISBN: | 9781107202207 |
| Publication date: | 19th February 2009 |
| Author: | Simpson, David |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Ebook |
This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres 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 labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control.
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Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern was written by Simpson, David and published by Cambridge University Press