Proefschrift--Amsterdam. / Bibliography: p. 170-174.

Thesis (M.A.) -- Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1987. / Typescript. Bibliography : leaves 111-123. Also available online.

Esta pesquisa é uma introdução à obra do poeta inglês William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Ela se estrutura em seis capítulos, divididos em dois eixos paralelos. Os capítulos de número par são voltados exclusivamente a obras do poeta: o primeiro é sobre o livro Baladas líricas (1798), analisado em contraponto com o cenário da poesia inglesa da época. O segundo é sobre o poema conhecido como \"Tintern Abbey\", e se volta mais detalhadamente à singularidade do autor, passando por questões teóricas sobre a representação do pensamento na poesia e a invenção do \"eu\" no poema. O último capítulo da série é sobre o livro O prelúdio (1805/1850), autobiografia do poeta; o capítulo é uma breve discussão sobre o que são livros. O segundo eixo -- o dos capítulos de número ímpar --, compõe um ambiente para a leitura do poeta: são retratos de pessoas que participaram de seu círculo íntimo. O primeiro é sobre sua irmã, Dorothy Wordsworth, e os diários que escrevia; o segundo, sobre o poeta S.T. Coleridge, coautor das Baladas líricas; o último é sobre o utopista e viajante John \"Walking\" Stewart. / This dissertation is an introduction to the works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850). It is divided into six chapters, organized under two main lines. Chapters 2, 4 and 6 focus exclusively on William Wordsworth\'s poems: chapter 2 discussing the Lyrical Ballads (1798) in comparison to the different literatures of the period; chapter 4 focusing on Tintern Abbey and the poet\'s uniqueness, while at the same time researching the modes of thought that occur in poetry, and the invention of the poetic \"I\". The last chapter of this triad focuses on the author\'s autobiography, The prelude (1805/1850); it is a short text, concerned with the notion of what books are. The second triad chapters 1, 3 and 5 creates an environment for the reading of the poems: three portraits of people who were part of the poet\'s circle of friends and influences. The first one is on the poet\'s sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, and on her diary-writing. The second one is on S.T. Coleridge, who co-wrote the Lyrical Ballads. The last one is on John \"Walking\" Stewart, an utopian as well as a literal fellow-traveler.

Esta pesquisa é uma introdução à obra do poeta inglês William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Ela se estrutura em seis capítulos, divididos em dois eixos paralelos. Os capítulos de número par são voltados exclusivamente a obras do poeta: o primeiro é sobre o livro Baladas líricas (1798), analisado em contraponto com o cenário da poesia inglesa da época. O segundo é sobre o poema conhecido como \"Tintern Abbey\", e se volta mais detalhadamente à singularidade do autor, passando por questões teóricas sobre a representação do pensamento na poesia e a invenção do \"eu\" no poema. O último capítulo da série é sobre o livro O prelúdio (1805/1850), autobiografia do poeta; o capítulo é uma breve discussão sobre o que são livros. O segundo eixo -- o dos capítulos de número ímpar --, compõe um ambiente para a leitura do poeta: são retratos de pessoas que participaram de seu círculo íntimo. O primeiro é sobre sua irmã, Dorothy Wordsworth, e os diários que escrevia; o segundo, sobre o poeta S.T. Coleridge, coautor das Baladas líricas; o último é sobre o utopista e viajante John \"Walking\" Stewart. / This dissertation is an introduction to the works of William Wordsworth (1770-1850). It is divided into six chapters, organized under two main lines. Chapters 2, 4 and 6 focus exclusively on William Wordsworth\'s poems: chapter 2 discussing the Lyrical Ballads (1798) in comparison to the different literatures of the period; chapter 4 focusing on Tintern Abbey and the poet\'s uniqueness, while at the same time researching the modes of thought that occur in poetry, and the invention of the poetic \"I\". The last chapter of this triad focuses on the author\'s autobiography, The prelude (1805/1850); it is a short text, concerned with the notion of what books are. The second triad chapters 1, 3 and 5 creates an environment for the reading of the poems: three portraits of people who were part of the poet\'s circle of friends and influences. The first one is on the poet\'s sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, and on her diary-writing. The second one is on S.T. Coleridge, who co-wrote the Lyrical Ballads. The last one is on John \"Walking\" Stewart, an utopian as well as a literal fellow-traveler.

This thesis adopts a historical point of view to analyze Wordsworth¡¦s concept of education in relation to nineteenth-century English educational reform. In the nineteenth century, mass education, following the pace of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, became an indispensable social issue. Among the diverse educational reform movements, Joseph Lancaster and Andrew Bell¡¦s monitorial system was most prominent in that they provided a pedagogy that utilized teaching assistants to achieve efficiency and sufficiency in a large classroom and thus fulfilled the need of large-quantitative education of the age. Featured by efficiency, sufficiency, and materialism, the monitorial system best embodies the spirit of the Industrial Age. On the other hand, Wordsworth insisted on a community-based educational philosophy that urged people of his age to cherish old moral concepts such as harmonious, affectionate, and cooperative communal spirit inherent in traditional rural communities. The poet, representing the eighteenth-century rural tradition, observed with anxiety those children raised in an materialistic atmosphere. He delineates in his major works, especially The Excursion, a social vision that provides the best environment for the development and education of a spiritually mature man in which nature, man, and society are incorporated into a harmonious unity. This insistence on the old rural tradition distanced Wordsworth from his contemporary educational reformers and caused him to withdraw from his original support of the monitorial system.

This dissertation focuses on a Romanticism that was profoundly global in scope, and examines the boundary-crossing literary techniques of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley. These authors saw identity as delimited by artificial borders, and we witness in their work competitions between local and global, immediate and infinite, home and away – all formulated in spatial terms. This thesis argues that by using motifs and philosophies associated with “borderless” global travel, these authors radically destabilized definitions of nature, history, and the home. Wordsworth and the Shelleys saw the act of travel as essentially cosmopolitan, and frequently depicted spaces outside of familiar boundaries as being rich in imaginative vitality. Their fiction and poetry abounds with examples of North American primitivism, radical modes of transportation, and unknown territories sought by passionate explorers. Importantly, they often used such examples of foreignness to rejuvenate familiar spaces and knowledge – these were individuals determined to retain a certain amount of local integrity, or connection with the reluctant minds who feared alien contexts. As such, they were each aware of the fragility of embedded minds, and the connection of these minds to bordered historical contexts. Aware of the dangers posed by uninhibited imaginative movements, they depicted travel as an artistically seductive activity. Their impulse as authors was thus to use global experiences as a tool of literary expression, while refraining from a total abandonment of local responsibility. This dissertation therefore argues that the imaginative experience of space in the Romantic period was profoundly split, tethered on the one hand to custom and familiarity, and on the other aspiring to boundless global freedoms.

This dissertation focuses on a Romanticism that was profoundly global in scope, and examines the boundary-crossing literary techniques of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley. These authors saw identity as delimited by artificial borders, and we witness in their work competitions between local and global, immediate and infinite, home and away – all formulated in spatial terms. This thesis argues that by using motifs and philosophies associated with “borderless” global travel, these authors radically destabilized definitions of nature, history, and the home. Wordsworth and the Shelleys saw the act of travel as essentially cosmopolitan, and frequently depicted spaces outside of familiar boundaries as being rich in imaginative vitality. Their fiction and poetry abounds with examples of North American primitivism, radical modes of transportation, and unknown territories sought by passionate explorers. Importantly, they often used such examples of foreignness to rejuvenate familiar spaces and knowledge – these were individuals determined to retain a certain amount of local integrity, or connection with the reluctant minds who feared alien contexts. As such, they were each aware of the fragility of embedded minds, and the connection of these minds to bordered historical contexts. Aware of the dangers posed by uninhibited imaginative movements, they depicted travel as an artistically seductive activity. Their impulse as authors was thus to use global experiences as a tool of literary expression, while refraining from a total abandonment of local responsibility. This dissertation therefore argues that the imaginative experience of space in the Romantic period was profoundly split, tethered on the one hand to custom and familiarity, and on the other aspiring to boundless global freedoms.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2005. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Dec. 3, 2008). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-03, Section: A, page: 1010. Chair: Nicholas Mark Williams.

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-98). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Santa Cruz, 1984. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references.