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    Wordsworth's Unremembered Pleasure by Freer, Alexander;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 29 October 2020

    • ISBN 9780198856986
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages272 pages
    • Size 222x141x18 mm
    • Weight 432 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing.

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    Long description:

    Wordsworth has traditionally been understood as the 'poet of memory'. This book argues that 'unremembered pleasure', an idea Wordsworth formulates in 'Tintern Abbey' but is often overlooked by modern readers, is central to understanding his writing. Wordsworth's poems discover and articulate a broad range of previously unfelt, unnoticed, and unconscious satisfactions.

    As well as providing new interpretations of major and under-studied writing by Wordsworth, this volume challenges a long tradition of psychoanalytic reading of romanticism, which uses trauma to explain the limits of literary memory. The book contests key psychoanalytic concepts in literary criticism including repression, sublimation, mourning, and pleasure. It asks what it would mean for us to be 'surprised by joy'.

    The freshness, aptitude, thoughtfulness and delicacy with which Freer pursues these twin trajectories ? engaging psychoanalysis in order better to articulate how Wordsworth departs from it... [A] thoughtful, nuanced and perceptive dialogue between Wordsworth and Freud.

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    Table of Contents:

    Preface
    Introduction: Wordsworth after Freud
    Unremembered Pleasure
    The Infancy of Affection
    Metrical Pleasures
    Sustaining Elegy
    Happiness in Time
    Conclusion
    Bibliography
    Index

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