Romantic Geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces (Romanticism in Perspectives : Texts, Cultures, Histories) - Hardcover

Countering established views that Wordsworth and his contemporaries evasively view the actual world through the idealizing imagination, Wiley (English, U. of North Florida) provides a fresh materialistic model of Romantic displacement by returning the term to its spatial and geographical roots. He argues that while 18th century social and political groups contested spaces through maps and geographical writings, Wordsworth's landscapes reconfigured institutional representations of the land and posited critical alternatives to them. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.