2009
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This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding power of commodity form in rendering economic and social exchange more and more abstract, more and more distant from human agency and control. Reading Wordsworth alongside Marx and Derrida, Simpson examines the genesis of an attitude of concern which exemplifies the predicament of modern subjectivity as it faces suffering and distress.
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David Simpson
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Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. David Simpson is Distinguished Professor of English of UC Davis, Yolo County. He obtained his B.A. from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1973, his M.A. from the University of Michigan in 1974 and earned his Ph.D. from Magdalene College, Cambridge in 1977. He taught at Columbia, University of Colorado, Northwestern University, and Cambridge, before joining UC Davis in 1997.
