The Global Wordsworth: Romanticism Out of Place

227 Pages·2019·2.272 MB·English

by  Katherine Bergren

THE GLOBAL WORDSWORTH
R O M A N T I C I S M O U T O F P L A C E
K A T H E R I N E B E R G R E N
TRANSITS
The Global
Words worth
TRANSITS
LITERATURE, THOUGHT & CULTURE 1650– 1850
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TRANSITS
The Global
Words worth
Romanticism
Out of Place
KATHERINE BERGREN
LEWISBURG
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Bergren, Katherine, author.
Title: The global Wordsworth : Romanticism out of place / by
Katherine Bergren.
Other titles: After Wordsworth
Description: Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell University Press, [2019] |
Series: Transits : literature, thought & culture | Revision of author’s
thesis (doctoral)— University of California, Los Angeles, 2013, titled
After Wordsworth : global revisions of the English poet. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019012618 | ISBN 9781684480135 (cloth : alk.
paper) | ISBN 9781684480128 (paperback : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781684480142 (epub) | ISBN 9781684480166 (web pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Wordsworth, William, 1770– 1850— Influence. |
Romanticism— Influence.
Classification: LCC PR5888 .B46 2019 | DDC 821/.7— dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019012618
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
1 The Global Routes of Daffodils 23
2 Landscape Pedagogy in J. M. Coetzee,
The Prelude, and the Lucy Poems 51
3 Globalizing England: Lydia Maria Child and
The Excursion 97
4 Localism Unrooted: Jamaica Kincaid and
the Guide to the Lakes 145
Conclusion 183
Acknowledgments 189
Bibliography 191
Index 205

ABBREVIATIONS
A Lydia Maria Child, An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called
Africans (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996)
Ab Michelle Cliff, Abeng (New York: Plume, 1995)
AF Jamaica Kincaid, Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya (Washington,
D.C.: National Geographic, 2005)
D J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace (New York: Penguin, 1999)
DA Laura Mullen, Dark Archive (Berkeley: University of California Press,
2011)
CPW Matthew Arnold, The Complete Prose Works of Matthew Arnold, 11
vols., ed. R. H. Super (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1960–1977)
E William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. E.
de Selincourt, vol. 5, The Excursion (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949)
HH Claude McKay, Home to Harlem (Boston: Northeastern University
Press, 1987)
L Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)
MGB Jamaica Kincaid, My Garden (Book): (New York: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux, 1999)
MS V. S. Naipaul, Miguel Street (New York: Vintage, 2002)
P William Wordsworth, The Prelude, 1799, 1805, 1850, ed. Jonathan
Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, and Stephen Gill (New York: Norton,
1979)
PrW William Wordsworth, The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, 3 vols.,
ed. W. J. B. Owen and Jane Worthington Smyser (Oxford: Clarendon
Press, 1974)
PW William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, 5
vols., ed. E. de Selincourt (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940–1949)