Wordsworth's vagrants : police, prisons, and poetry in the 1790s / Quentin Bailey.

SeriesBritish literature in context in the long eighteenth century
British literature in context in the long eighteenth century. ^A1108416
Contents Prisoners, poetry, and the 'Jacobin creed' -- A 'rapid and alarming increase of crimes': law and order in eighteenth-century england -- 'Tyranny and implements of death': crimes, punishments, and the 'distracted times' of 1792-1795 -- A traveller upon the plain of sarum: sacrificial altars, penal reform, and the salisbury plain poems -- 'If good angels fail': government, lawlessness, and sympathy in the borderers -- 'Dangerous and suspicious trades': the pedlar, the board of police revenue, and the poetry of human suffering -- 'Have you any honest means of livelihood, and if so, what is it?': idle and disorderly persons in the 1798 lyrical ballads -- 'Laugh and be gay, to the woods away!': madness and the limits of poetic knowledge -- Peter Bell and 'the spirits of the mind'.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2011015328
ISBN9781409427056 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1409427056 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9781409427063 (ebook)
ISBN1409427064 (ebook)

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