Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure by Freer, Alexander

Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198856986)

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Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure by Freer, Alexander

Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure

$89.00
Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure by Freer, Alexander

Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure

$89.00
Format: Hardcover
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Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions.

As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.

Author: Alexander Freer
ISBN-10: 0198856989
ISBN-13: 9780198856986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 12/29/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.40w x 0.90d
By Alexander Freer
By Alexander Freer
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Alexander Freer, Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Alexander Freer is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he teaches eighteenth-century and romantic literature. He studied at Warwick and at Christ's College, Cambridge, taught at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of essays on romantic poetry, poetics, and literary criticism.

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