Wordsworth: The Sense of History

by Alan Liu

Book by Liu, Alan

726 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Alan Liu is Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His previous books include Wordsworth: The Sense of History, and two books published by the University of Chicago Press, The Laws of Cool: Knowledge Work and the Culture of Information and Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database.

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

rereading.
"Without narrative reference, of course the very fact of interpretation became unapparent. Thus, I suggest, arose picturesque form: unapparent interpretation _is_ form."