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]
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 language | English |
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Publisher | The Editorial Institute at Boston University |
Number of pages | 111 |
Volume | 45 |
Edition | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- Wordsworth
- The Excursion (1814)
- Coleridge