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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"John Clare"”.
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A study of John Clare in his historical and political context
… indicates, the basis of the thesis is to set John Clare’s life and work within the context of the social and political history of his time. It is a study that is long overdue. The manner in which topical and political matters were mediated to him and were reflected in his work are analysed. …
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The Queer Ecology of Clouds in Nineteenth-Century British Poetics
… I discuss writers from the working class (e.g., John Clare, Ellen Johnston), women writers (e.g., Mary Maria Colling, Dorothy Wordsworth), and middle- and upperclass writers (e.g., Alfred Tennyson, Gerard Manley Hopkins). In doing so, I queer traditional canons and challenge assumptions of human …
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The Bird Is The Feeling: Romantic Natural History And Its Subjects
… and poems of Dorothy and William Wordsworth, John Clare, and Henry David Thoreau, this dissertation frames the Romantic turn to nature not as a turn away from sociality and history but towards alternative forms of both. Intervening in a number of established strands of Romantic literary …
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Creative thesis : The ballad of Yellow Wednesday; critical thesis: Light grows from the ground: An ecocritical study of the poetry of David Morley
… the writings of Martin Heidegger, the poetry of John Clare, sonnet theory, and aspects of bird-nest construction. <br/><br/>Finally, the bridging statement reflects on the inter-relationship between the creative and critical components. It considers aspects of connection between the creative …
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Poetic Madness and the Reception of British Romanticism 1800-1870
… William Blake, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Clare. It discusses how these writers contributed to, or interwove with their own life and art, new and rediscovered mythologies of poetic madness; anticipating and resisting the public images of journalism or biography described previously. …
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Romanticism at Scale
… production. The final chapter, ‘Writing John Clare: Infinite Smallness, Non-Identity, and *The Constructed Clare*’, contemplates issues in Clare’s reception and editorial history relating to his perceived smallness, and detects in them a form of resilient knowledge about Clare’s own …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… of the French and British nation states, how John Clare expressed his own loss of home in the wake of environmental change, and how Lord Byron represented the collective experience of upheaval in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan. The second half of the dissertation moves to the …
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When Time Shall Surrender: Disability, Crip Time, and John Clare's Language of Annihilation
… paper approaches the extraordinary cohesion of John Clare’s poetry through his violent reordering of subjectivity — what I call the annihilative turn — by way of disability studies and ecocriticism in his pre-asylum and asylum-era poetry. Disability studies allows Clare’s mental non-normativity …