Romantic Geography: Wordsworth And Anglo-european Spaces

ROMANTIC GEOGRAPHY ROMANTICISM IN PERSPECTIVE: TEXTS, CULTURES, HISTORIES General Editors: Marilyn Gaul!, Professor of English, Temple University/New York University Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow This series aims to offer a fresh assessment of Romanticism by looking at it from a wide variety of perspectives. Both comparative and interdisciplinary, it will bring together cognate themes from architecture, art history, landscape gardening, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, science, social and political history and theology to deal with original, contentious or as yet unexplored aspects of Romanticism as a Europe-wide phenomenon. Titles include Richard Cronin (editor) 1798: THE YEAR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS Peter Davidhazi THE ROMANTIC CULT OF SHAKESPEARE: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective David Jasper THE SACRED AND SECULAR CANON IN ROMANTICISM: Preserving the Sacred Truths Andrew McCann CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere Ashton Nichols THE REVOLUTIONARY T: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation Jeffrey C. Robinson RECEPTION AND POETICS IN KEATS: 'My Ended Poet' Anya Taylor BACCHUS IN ROMANTIC ENGLAND: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 Michael Wiley ROMANTIC GEOGRAPHY: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces Rotnantic Geography Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces Michael Wiley First published in Great Britain 1998 by MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG2l 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 978-0-230-37426-3 (eBook) ISBN 978-1-349-40405-6 DOI 10.1057/9780230374263 First published in the United States of America 1998 by ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., Scholarly and Reference Division, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-17655-6 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Wiley, Michael, 1961Romantic geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-European spaces / Michael Wiley. p. cm. - (Romanticism in perspective: texts, cultures, histories) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-17655-6 1. Wordsworth, Willian1, 1770-1850-Knowledge--Geography. 2. Literature and society---England-History--18th century. 3. Lake District (England)-ln literature. 4. Geography in literature. 5. Utopias in literature. 6. Europe-- In literature. 7. Romanticism-England. I. Title. II. Series: Romanticism in perspective. PR5892.G4W54 1998 821'.7-dc21 97-49338 CIP © Michael Wiley 1998 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1998 978-0-333-71890-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to (his this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. 10987654 3 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 2 1 99 98 Contents List of Plates vii List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix 1 Wordsworth's Mapping of Utopia: an Introduction 1