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ROMANTIC GEOGRAPHY ROMANTICISM IN PERSPECTIVE: TEXTS, CULTURES, HISTORIES General Editors: Marilyn Gaul!, Professor of English, Temple University/New York University Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Glasgow This series aims to offer a fresh assessment of Romanticism by looking at it from a wide variety of perspectives. Both comparative and interdisciplinary, it will bring together cognate themes from architecture, art history, landscape gardening, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, science, social and political history and theology to deal with original, contentious or as yet unexplored aspects of Romanticism as a Europe-wide phenomenon. Titles include Richard Cronin (editor) 1798: THE YEAR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS Peter Davidhazi THE ROMANTIC CULT OF SHAKESPEARE: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective David Jasper THE SACRED AND SECULAR CANON IN ROMANTICISM: Preserving the Sacred Truths Andrew McCann CULTURAL POLITICS IN THE 1790s: Literature, Radicalism and the Public Sphere Ashton Nichols THE REVOLUTIONARY T: Wordsworth and the Politics of Self-Presentation Jeffrey C. Robinson RECEPTION AND POETICS IN KEATS: 'My Ended Poet' Anya Taylor BACCHUS IN ROMANTIC ENGLAND: Writers and Drink, 1780-1830 Michael Wiley ROMANTIC GEOGRAPHY: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces Rotnantic Geography Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces Michael Wiley FFiirrsstt ppuubblliisshheedd iinn GGrreeaatt BBrriittaaiinn 11999988 bbyy MMAACCMMIILLLLAANN PPRREESSSS LLTTDD HHoouunnddmmiillllss,, BBaassiinnggssttookkee,, HHaammppsshhiirree RRGG22ll 66XXSS aanndd LLoonnddoonn CCoommppaanniieess aanndd rreepprreesseennttaattiivveess tthhrroouugghhoouutt tthhee wwoorrlldd AA ccaattaalloogguuee rreeccoorrdd ffoorr tthhiiss bbooookk iiss aavvaaiillaabbllee ffrroomm tthhee BBrriittiisshh LLiibbrraarryy.. ISBN 978-1-349-40405-6 ISBN 978-0-230-37426-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230374263 FFiirrsstt ppuubblliisshheedd iinn tthhee UUnniitteedd SSttaatteess ooff AAmmeerriiccaa 11999988 bbyy SSTT.. 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TThhee aauutthhoorr hhaass aasssseerrtteedd hhiiss rriigghhtt ttoo bbee iiddeennttiiffiieedd aass tthhee aauutthhoorr ooff tthhiiss wwoorrkk iinn aaccccoorrddaannccee wwiitthh tthhee CCooppyyrriigghhtt,, DDeessiiggnnss aanndd PPaatteennttss AAcctt 11998888.. TThhiiss bbooookk iiss pprriinntteedd oonn ppaappeerr ssuuiittaabbllee ffoorr rreeccyycclliinngg aanndd mmaaddee ffrroomm ffuullllyy mmaannaaggeedd aanndd ssuussttaaiinneedd ffoorreesstt ssoouurrcceess.. 1100998877665544 33 22 11 0077 0066 0055 0044 0033 0022 0011 0000 9999 9988 Contents List of Plates vii List of Figures viii Acknowledgements ix 1 Wordsworth's Mapping of Utopia: an Introduction 1 2 From Dystopia to Utopia 18 3 Narrative and Lyrical Geographies 48 4 Naming New Worlds 79 5 A 'Scanty Plot of Ground': the 1802 Sonnets 121 6 Abandoning Utopia 143 Conclusion: Other Spaces 177 Notes 181 Index 207 v List of Plates 1 'The world as known to Europeans about 1800', from Gerald Roe Crone's Modem Geographers (reproduced by permission of the Royal Geographical Society). 2 Britannia in shepherdess's clothing, from Map of the County of Wilts (1773) by John Andrews and Andrew Dury (reproduced by permission of the Wiltshire Record Society). 3 Detail of Andrews and Dury's Map of the County of Wilts (1773) (reproduced by permission of the Wiltshire Record Society). 4 An Accurate Map of England and Wales (1777), from Emanuel Bowen and Thomas Kitchin's The Royal English Atlas (David and Charles Reprints, 1971). 5 William Mudge's Plan of the Principal Triangles, from An Ac count of the Operations Carried on for Accomplishing a Trigona metrical Survey of England and Wales, Vol. 3 (1811) (General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). 6 Wordsworth's wheel-spoke sight lines superimposed on Sidney Hall's Map of the Lakes. 7 James Clarke's chart of views from Penrith Beacon (1789) (cour tesy of the Newberry Library, Chicago). 8 Detail of Triangles from the Survey of Dorsetshire showing the wheel-spoke sight lines of the Ordnance Survey, from An Account of the Operations Carried on for Accomplishing a Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales (1799, 1801, 1811) (General Research Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations). vii List of Figures 3.1 Goodey' s rendering of Thomas More's Utopia 52 6.1 Wordsworth's sight lines from the summit of Black Comb Mountain 166 6.2 Extension of Wordsworth's sight lines to the coast of Spain 168 viii Acknowledgements I owe gratitude to many for helping me with this study. My deep thanks go to Marilyn Gaull for guiding me editorially and encour aging my project, and to Stephen Prickett and Charmian Hearne for their editorial enthusiasm and support. Robert Woof and Jeff Cowton of the Wordsworth Trust at Dove Cottage and R.O.C. Spring, Clerk of the Works at Salisbury Cathedral, helped me answer obscure research questions. The staffs at the Research Branch of the New York Public Library and the Newberry Library have provided invaluable help as well. My appreciation goes to the American Geographical Society and the Royal Geographical Society for permission to reprint illus trations first published in their periodicals. I owe deep thanks also to Paul Magnuson for his critical guid ance and enthusiasm for this project when I first developed it as a doctoral dissertation at New York University. Many thanks as well to Laurence Lockridge, in whose seminar the idea for this book first took shape, and to Timothy Morton, who encouraged theoretical rigor. Thank you to my wife Julia Burns; and thank you to my parents George and Sally Wiley. ix
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