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Nomadische Existenzen : Vagabondage und Boheme in Literatur und Kultur des 20. Jahrhunderts : mit einer Artur-Streiter-Bibliographie
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ISBN: 9783898618144 3898618145 Year: 2007 Volume: 16 Publisher: Essen Klartext Verlag

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Vagrancy in English culture and society, 1650-1750
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ISBN: 9781350058125 1350058122 9781472589941 1472589947 9781472589958 9781472589965 Year: 2018 Publisher: London: Bloomsbury,

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The first social and cultural history of vagrancy between 1650 and 1750, this book combines sources from across England and the Atlantic world to describe the shifting and desperate experiences of the very poorest and most marginalized of people in early modernity; the outcasts, the wandering destitute, the disabled veteran, the aged labourer, the solitary pregnant woman on the road and those referred to as vagabonds and beggars are all explored in this comprehensive account of the subject. Using a rich array of archival and literary sources, Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650-1750 offers a history not only of the experiences of vagrants themselves, but also of how the settled 'better sort' perceived vagrancy, how it was culturally represented in both popular and elite literature as a shadowy underworld of dissembling rogues, gypsies, and pedlars, and how these representations powerfully affected the lives of vagrants themselves.Hitchcock's is an important study for all scholars and students interested in the social and cultural history of early modern England.


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Vagrancy in English Culture and Society, 1650–1750
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ISBN: 9781474296212 9781472589941 1472589947 9781472589958 9781472589965 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Bloomsbury Publishing

Rogues and early modern English culture
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ISBN: 1282591495 9786612591495 0472025163 9780472025169 9780472031771 0472031775 0472113747 9780472113743 9781282591493 Year: 2006 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

Romantic vagrancy : wordsworth and the simulation of freedom
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ISBN: 0521475074 0521035104 0511553501 Year: 1995 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge New York Melbourne Cambridge University Press

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A provocative account of Wordsworth's representation of walking as the exercise of imagination, Romantic Vagrancy traces a recurrent analogy between the poet in search of material and the literally dispossessed vagrants and beggars he encounters. Reading Wordsworth - and Rousseau before him - from the perspective of recent debates about the political and social rights of the homeless, Celeste Langan argues that both literature and vagrancy are surprisingly rich and disturbing images of the 'negative freedom' at the heart of liberalism. Langan shows how the formal structure of the Romantic poem - the improvisational excursion - mirrors its apparent themes, often narratives of impoverishment or abandonment. According to Langan, the encounter between the beggar and the passer-by in Wordsworth's poetry does not simply reveal a social conscience or its lack; it represents the advent of the liberal subject, whose identity is stretched out between origin and destination, caught between economic and political forces and the workings of desire.

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