Landscape, liberty, and authority : poetry, criticism, and politics from Thomson to Wordsworth / / Tim Fulford [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248126203316
• Autore: Fulford Tim <1962->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-139-08563-8; 9780521024727; 0-511-82143-3; 0-511-51900-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ; ; 30
• Disciplina: 821/.50936
• Soggetti: English poetry - 18th century - History and criticism; Landscapes in literature; Politics and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century; Political poetry, English - History and criticism; Description (Rhetoric) - History - 18th century; Picturesque, The, in literature; Authority in literature; Liberty in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.