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Inventing the "little space of intermediate time": Wordsworthian Reflexive Historicism in The Prelude, Books 7 and 8.(William Wordsworth)(Critical Essay)

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From: Criticism
Date: 20000922
Author:HADLEY, KAREN

IN REACTION TO THE DECONSTRUCTION which preceded them, New Historicist, New Materialist readings have inaugurated a new wave of intensely historical attention to the poetry of William Wordsworth. The distinctively "Romantic" variety of New Historicism has engaged a "poetics of displacement," in which the disruption of historical reference has been shifted from literary text to historical context. In contrast, new formalist, new pragmatist approaches have acknowledged disruption and discontinuity within the literary text, but are often less likely to address historical context.(1) ...

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