Wallace, Anne D.

Walking, literature, and English culture: the origins and uses of peripatetic in the nineteenth century - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983. - 265 p. ; pb; 22 cm.

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.

9780198183280


English Literature
Walking-England- History- 19th Century
Civilization

820.9355 / WAL