WALKING, LITERATURE, AND ENGLISH CULTURE - The origins and uses peripatetic in the nineteenth century
by WALLACE, ANNE D
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Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. Cover illustration: 'Shepherd with sheep'. Walking, Literature, and English Culture is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Engaging with current debates about the relationship between industrialization and cultural production, and between technology and the picturesque, Anne Wallace examines the forces that transformed walking from an unwelcome fact of life to a celebrated activity for mind and body. Rereading Wordsworth in the context of contemporary changes in transport, agriculture, and aesthetics, she articulates a previously unacknowledged literary mode - peripatetic. Walking and its representation is set in terms of specific historical circumstances, for examples the rise of enclosure, which Wallace shows is partially undermined by the assertion of footpath rights. Her discussions move from eighteenth-century approaches to peripatetic through its varied uses in Victorian literature, notably in the work of Barrett Browning, Dickens, and Hardy. This is a major contribution to the study of rural English literature (and georgic), in which Anne Wallace demonstrates how a proper understanding of peripatetic significantly enriches our assessment of a text's relation to its culture. Contents: 1). The results of destination. 2). Replacing cultivation. 3). Walking where the sower dwelt. 4). Walking as ideology. 5). Walking at all risk. With notes, bibliography and index. 265 pag.. First Clarendon paperback. Paperback. Good condition/Cover illustrated. 21,5cmx14cm.
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- WALKING, LITERATURE, AND ENGLISH CULTURE - The origins and uses peripatetic in the nineteenth century
- Author
- WALLACE, ANNE D
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition
- Jacket Condition
- Cover illustrated
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- First Clarendon paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0198183283
- ISBN 13
- 9780198183280
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- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- matthew arnold jane austen john clare john gay thomas hardy plumptre william wordsworth raymond williams thoreau virgil samuel johnson barrett browning
- Size
- 21,5cmx14cm
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