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William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution

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  1. Mark Keay
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Part of the book series: Studies in Modern History (SMH)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 1-20

  3. Old Lakeland: a Golden Age Ideal

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 21-49

  4. Land Tenure: a Lake District Survey

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 50-67

  5. Wordsworth and Cobbett: a Comparison

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 68-127

  6. Wordsworth and Burke: a Contrast

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 128-154

  7. Wordsworth: a Weberian Account

    • Mark Keay
    Pages 155-198

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 199-295
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About this book

Wordsworth's romantic critique of industrial life and society was backward-looking. His 'Golden Age ideal' of pastoral life and rural relationships falls within the scope of English 'populism' as found among the middle ranks of small independent producers and their idealogues. Furthermore his rural education and up-bringing in the remote North of England explain his long-term shift from radical and whig reformer to tory placeman in the years 1789 to 1832 as well as his relative demise as a poet.

About the author

MARK KEAY is a freelance historian and biographer. He received a postgraduate award scholarship from the School of Australian and International Studies at Deakin University, Geelong, to research 'Golden Age theories' both in Modern English History and Literature.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: William Wordsworth's Golden Age Theories During the Industrial Revolution

  • Authors: Mark Keay

  • Series Title: Studies in Modern History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919564

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-79436-4Published: 26 September 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-42017-9Published: 03 March 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-1956-4Published: 26 September 2001

  • Series ISSN: 2946-2053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2946-2061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 295

  • Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, British and Irish Literature

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