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Wordsworth’s Antipodean poetics
Giles, Paul
Giles, Paul
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Abstract
This essay describes how Wordsworth’s poetry engages with geographical materialism to inscribe an antipodean aesthetics that raise questions about imaginative interactions between proximate and distant. These become crucial to Wordsworth’s representation of antithesis and reversal across time as well as space. It considers how Wordsworth introduced the politics of colonization to contemplate the status of local indigeneity in relation to metaphors of global cartography. It then addresses how figures of transposition, self-contradiction and doubling permeate The Excursion and concludes by suggesting ways in which such an antipodean imaginary can be seen as integral to the larger designs of Wordsworth’s poetry.
Keywords
Antipodean, geographical materialism, cartography, colonialism, The Excursion, doubling
Date
2022
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Journal article
Journal
Studies in Romanticism
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Volume
61
Issue
3
Page Range
379-404
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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