Revolutionary 'I'

Ashton Nichols is Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

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

• Preface: The Prelude as Prologue Silencing the (Other) Self: Wordsworth as 'Wordsworth!' in 'There was a boy' The Politics of Self Presentation: Wordsworth as Revolutionary Actor in a Literary Drama Sounds into Speech: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 as Dialogic Dramatic Monologue Coleridge as Catalyst to Autobiography: The Wordsworthian Self as Therapeutic Gift, 1804-1805 Dialogizing Dorothy: Voicing the Feminine as Spousal Sister in The Prelude Colonizing Consciousness: Culture as Identity in Wordsworth's Prelude and Walcott's Another Life Endnotes Bibliography Index