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Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth by Tim Fulford (Paperback, 2006)

Eighteenth-century landscape description formed part of a larger debate over the nature of liberty and authority which was vital to a Britain newly defining its nationhood in a period of growing imperial power and rapid economic change. Tim Fulford examines landscape description in the writings of Thomson, Cowper, Johnson, Gilpin, Repton, Wordsworth, Coleridge and others, revealing tensions that arose as writers struggled for authority over the public sphere and sought to redefine the nature of that authority. In his investigation of poetry and political and aesthetic writing, Dr Fulford throws light on the legacy of Commonwealth and Country-party ideas of liberty. Also discussed are the significance of the Miltonic sublime, the politics of the picturesque and the post-colonial encounter of the Scottish tour. Dr Fulford goes on to show how the early radicalism and later conservatism of Wordsworth and Coleridge were shaped, in part, by eighteenth-century literary political and literary authorities. His study offers an understanding of literary and political influence that cuts across conventional periodization, finding new links between the early eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Book Title
Landscape, Liberty and Authority: Poetry, Criticism and Politics from Thomson to Wordsworth
Author
Tim Fulford
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature
Publication Year
2006
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Title_Author
Tim Fulford
Series Title
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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