The Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads'

Sally Bushell is Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature and Co-Director of The Wordsworth Centre in the Department of English Literature and Creative Writing, Lancaster University. She has long had an interest in Wordsworth. Her first book, Re-Reading The Excursion (2002), sought to open up the text to new readings, followed by her co-editing of the Cornell Excursion (2007) and her second monograph: Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson and Dickinson (2009), which explored the margins of textuality by developing a method for interpreting works in a state of process. A strong interest in place and space in literature has recently led her into research around the question of how the reader spatialises literature with a forthcoming monograph (Cambridge. 2020) on Reading and Mapping Fiction. She is also interested in digital and spatial projects for the mapping of literature and is PI on the AHRC-Funded project: Chronotopic Cartographies and has developed an educational project using Minecraft to map literary worlds (LITCRAFT).

'This bright new Cambridge Companion to 'Lyrical Ballads' is a thoughtfully conceived and well-executed collection that illuminates the famous book from several angles.' Seamus Perry, The Wordsworth Circle

• Part I. Part and Whole; 1. Wordsworth's 'Preface': A Manifesto for British Romanticism Sally Bushell; 2. Collaboration, Domestic Co-partnery and Lyrical Ballads Polly Atkin; 3. Coleridgean Contributions Tim Fulford; 4. Lyric Voice, Ballad Voice Pete Newbon; Part II. Subjects and Situations from Common Life; 5. Conversation in Lyrical Ballads Frances Ferguson; 6. The Power of Things in Lyrical Ballads Paul H. Fry; 7. Marginal Figures Philip Shaw; Part III. Feeling and Thought; 8. Silence and Sympathy in Lyrical Ballads Andrew Bennett; 9. Domestic Affections and the Home Susan Wolfson; Part IV. Language and the Human Mind; 10. A 'Radical Difference': Wordsworth's Experiments in Language and Metre Brennan O'Donnell; 11. Awkward Relations: Poetry and Philosophy in Lyrical Ballads Alexander Regier; Part V. A Global Lyrical Ballads; 12. Ecocritical Approaches to Lyrical Ballads James C. McKusick; 13. Rhyming Revolutionaries: Lyrical Ballads in America Joel Pace; 14. The Indigenous Lyrical Ballads Nikki Hessell.