Table Of ContentROMANTIC 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
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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
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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).
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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
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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.
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