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The Revolutionary 'I': Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation 1998th Edition
Author(s): A. Nichols (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 8 July 1998
- Edition: 1998th
- Language: English
- Print length: 207 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780333718896
- ISBN-13: 0333718895
Book Description
In the winter of 1798-99, shut up in the freezing German town of Goslar, William Wordsworth began producing a series of lyrical fragments that appeared first in letters written to Coleridge and emerged eventually as source texts for The Prelude . These lyrics are revolutionary because they construct a new version of the autobiographical ‘I’. The Revolutionary ‘I’ explores the numerous voices of the poetic speaker ‘Wordsworth’ and their relationship to the historical figure who shared the same name.
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Review
Ashton Nichols’s The Revolutionary ‘I ‘ trawls through versions of The Prelude up to and including the 1805 text in search of a fundamental Wordsworthian orgininality, which he believes is a generative source of most subsequent imaginative literature in English…he believes that Prelude breaks new autobiographical ground with its presentation of the I as a dramatized cultural self rather merely a mimetic revelation of identity.’ – James Treadwell, The Wordsworth Circle
About the Author
Ashton Nichols is Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
