The Excursion: A Bicentenary Celebration: A Special Issue of The Wordsworth Circle

Tom Duggett (Editor), Jacob Risinger (Editor), Marilyn Gaull (Publisher), Sally Bushell, Richard Gravil, Michael O'Neill, Jonathan Farina, Kenneth Johnston, William Galperin, Ruth Abbott, Tom Clucas, Clare Simmons, Jane Stabler, Seamus Perry, Quentin Bailey, Tom Duggett, Richard Brantley, Robert Ryan, David Duff

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Abstract

'The Excursion': Greetings
For the bicentenary special issue devoted to The Excursion, I am indebted to Tom Duggett, who proposed it and whose expertise I have come to trust from his 'Gothic Romanticism: Architecture, Politics, and Literary Form (Palgrave Macmillan), which won the rare MLA Independent Scholar award, and to Jacob Risinger (Harvard) whose MLA session on 'The Excursion' began this celebratory year with papers by Duggett, Seamus Perry, and Kenneth Johnston, all in this issue. To all the authors, my boundless gratitude; their essays explain, enrich, refine, provoke, extend, and, I hope, will inspire more essays fulfilling the possibilities these have initiated: the textual (Bushell), technical (Gravil), analytical and interpretive (O'Neill, Farina, Johnston, Galperin), ancient sources (Abbott, Clucas, Simmons), contemporary contexts (Perry, Stabler, Bailey, Duggett), religious background (Brantley), Victorian influence (Ryan), and the material book (Duff). Marilyn Gaull [Founding Editor of The Wordsworth Circle]
Original languageEnglish
PublisherThe Editorial Institute at Boston University
Number of pages111
Volume45
Edition2
Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2014

Keywords

  • Wordsworth
  • The Excursion (1814)
  • Coleridge

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