Romantic Geography: Wordsworth and Anglo-European Spaces

by Michael Wiley

Countering established views that Wordsworth and his contemporaries evasively view the actual world through the idealizing imagination, Wiley (English, U. of North Florida) provides a fresh materialistic model of Romantic displacement by returning the term to its spatial and geographical roots. He argues that while 18th century social and political groups contested spaces through maps and geographical writings, Wordsworth's landscapes reconfigured institutional representations of the land and posited critical alternatives to them. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

212 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1997

About the author

Michael Wiley’s new novel is The Long Way Out, featuring Franky Dast, an exonerated ex-con who investigates a series of murders in Northeast Florida. Michael is also the author of three mystery and detective series, including the Shamus Award-winning Joe Kozmarski books, the Daniel Turner thrillers, and, most recently, the Sam Kelson PI novels. His short stories appear often in magazines and anthologies, including Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2022.

Michael grew up in Chicago and lived and worked in the neighborhoods and on the streets where he sets his Kelson and Kozmarski mysteries. He teaches literature at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville—the setting of The Long Way Out, an earlier Franky Dast novel (Monument Road), and the Daniel Turner novels.


Series:
* Joe Kozmarski Mystery