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wordsworth commodification and social concern the poetics of modernity
this 2009 reading of wordworths poetry by leading critic david simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life . wordsworth is reacting simpson argues to the massive changes in the condition of england and the modern world at the turn of the century mass warfare ; the increased scope of machine driven labour and urbanisation ; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract more and more distant from human agency and control . reading wordsworth alongside marx and derrida simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress .
hardcover cambridge univ pr 2009 isbn13 9780521898775 isbn10 0521898773
book type nf isbn 13 9780521898775 number of pages 278 publisher cambridge university press release date 62135769600000