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- Title
Wordsworth and Reading's Promise.
- Authors
MCDOWELL, STACEY
- Abstract
The article focuses on the reading habits of English author Dorothy Wordsworth, sister of William Wordsworth. Topics include how the familiar longing for more time to read-often claimed as a symptom of busy modern life; and book holds out a utopian promise of leisure time wrested back, plans for self-improvement realized, and peace restored.
- Subjects
READING interests; WORDSWORTH, Dorothy, 1771-1855; WORDSWORTH, William, 1770-1850; LEISURE; AUTODIDACTICISM
- Publication
Studies in Romanticism, 2021, Vol 60, Issue 1, p57
- ISSN
0039-3762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/srm.2021.0002