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... is writing a book titled William Hazlitt and the Medium of Culture . Consuming Nature: Wordsworth and the Kendal and Windermere Railway Controversy James Mulvihill Is then no nook of English ground secure From rash assault? Schemes of retirement sown...

... 5,500 words in the Post for December 11 and 20 of the same year, which in a revised form, constituted of some 6,700 words, he reprinted with the sonnet privately and later in a trade issue as Kendal and Windermere Railway, Two Letters; and passages in his personal correspondence.' Intrusions...

... valuations hold equivalent but mutually exclusive sway. Temporal uncertainty and relativism are relegated to the Far East, where one crosses land and sea with no reference to the civilizational trappings of calendars or newspapers, where railway tracks end and elephant rides begin, and where exotic...

... the mythic prevail over the his- toric), than we are confounded-with a second and remarkably tem- poral symbol for journeys arid Death: the railway train! Indeed, the contrast seems almost too deliberately drawn: the technological as op- posed to the natural, the land opposed to the water. All...

... is his attempt to use a transcendental lens to read the new mate- rial technologies transforming the nation. In the “Idealism” section of Nature, for example, Emerson posits that traveling “by mechanical means” on a railroad suggests “the difference between the observer and the spectacle,—between man...

... authors immortal” (244). Although the subsequent chapters each focus on particular thematic approaches, they describe, roughly, a chronological arc. Chapter 1, with the catchy pun in the title, “Paperback Fighter,” analyzes Victorian paperbound books, chiefly produced for railway reading, as “early...

... quotes, the second chapter has developed a full-blown set piece con- cerned with the British railway system, which also “suggested infinity” (27). The earlier passage unfolds altogether like a Riffaterrean labora- tory specimen. No sooner is Margaret Schlegel numbered...

... et Pskow,” he is always between. He is not in the world, he is separated from the world by the win- dow of his train-compartment, by the porthole of his cabin. The woman who dances by the railroad track is in Spain, Barnabooth is not (94) ; in anxiety, he prefers to see the port from his...

... as the occasion for the poem: In the Old World the east the Suez canal, The New by its mighty railroad spann’d, The seas inlaid with eloquent gentle wires.. . .*7 Too often the mistake is made of thinking that Whitman is merely celebrating these events...

... “enlightening” records of his diary. But his was an exceptionally varied experience that is here de- scribed: details of experience as solicitor and magistrate, promotion of the NewcastleCarlisle Railway, ceaseless efforts to advance social welfare move- ments, leadership in the north in Parliamentary...

... Press, 1959. Pp. xi 4- 159. $4.00. Many of us remember Arnold Bennett chiefly for his having been made a special kind of object lesson in a 1924 piece by Virginia Woolf. Suppose, she said, Mr. Bennett were traveling in a railway carriage with a Mrs. Brown (there are other novelists...

... difficulties with officials, railroad schedules, passports, customs, and the like, about which he writes to Milena with delightful humor) but is conscious of “the inner conspiracy” which paralyzes his wings before he dares stir. Although there is little in this book which will be new...

... in unceasing difficulties with officials, railroad schedules, passports, customs, and the like, about which he writes to Milena with delightful humor) but is conscious of “the inner conspiracy” which paralyzes his wings before he dares stir. Although there is little in this book which...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...

... wilderness, and how they evoke discontinuities in their New England scenes and drama- tize the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...

... the volatility of their characters’ and protagonists’ perceptions. Neither the town that Robin Molineux enters at nightfall nor the Railroad Cut that Thoreau’s persona examines in “Spring” is stable or simple; the scenes are implicit with multiple meanings and unpredictable changes as imagined...