Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary

AvKeith Hanley,Emma Mason

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.It surveys the imaginative relocation of Jerusalem and Rome to real and present places, thereby creating the nation’s sacred imaginary. Wordsworth is presented as central to founding a literary religious discourse on the sacred site of the Lake District. Also explored are the ways in which other Victorian writers such as Ruskin and Newman participated in that construction by their own literary pilgrimages.Overall, this book revises assumptions about the decline of the religious imagination in nineteenth-century English literature and fundamentally reappraises the function of Romantic and Victorian representations of the sacred in forming the nation and empire.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-07-10
Mått:162 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:521 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Religion and Literature
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350476004

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Keith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

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Keith Hanley is a very well-known scholar, eminent in his field, who has published excellent material on Wordsworth and Victorian topics. After long study of Victorian literature, he has written a book which brings his research to its culmination. Cogently argued and imaginatively illustrated, it treats judiciously selected texts in an informative manner, pitching itself well for lay reader and scholar alike. It is rare to find a scholar who so ably combines a gift for theory with an ability to provide close reading.

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IntroductionThe Sacred ImaginaryContinuitiesThe Sacred SymbolicPsychological PilgrimageThis BookPart I. The Return of the Sacred1 Romantic SacralizationThe New Dawn The Wordsworth Paradigm2 Literary PilgrimageThe English LakesNew JerusalemsRomePart II. Wordsworth's Grand Pilgrimage3 The Interior JourneyA Silent EchoThe Boys of WinanderRedoublings‘Winander’4 The Anglican SublimeSublimesBrotherly FacultiesCrossingsThe Sacred Nation5 ExcursionsReturn JourneysThe Irish TourThe Via MediaPart III. Sacred SpacesPreamble6 Three PsychogeographiesWordsworth’s ‘Sacred Ground’Ruskin ‘On the Old Roads’Newman’s Itinerary of AssentSelect BibliographyIndex