Walking, literature, and English culture: the origins and uses of peripatetic in the nineteenth century

By:

Wallace, Anne D

Publication details: Oxford University Press, 1983. Oxford:Description: 265 p. ; pb; 22 cmISBN:

9780198183280

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

820.9355 WAL

Summary: A cultural history of walking in 19th-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Rereading Wordsworth in the context of changes in transport, agriculture and aesthetics, Anne D. Wallace articulates an unacknowledged literary mode - pedestrianism.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A cultural history of walking in 19th-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Rereading Wordsworth in the context of changes in transport, agriculture and aesthetics, Anne D. Wallace articulates an unacknowledged literary mode - pedestrianism.

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