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Wordsworth's Vagrants: Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s Quentin Bailey New edition
Wordsworth's Vagrants: Police, Prisons, and Poetry in the 1790s
Quentin Bailey
Explores the poet Wordsworth's treatment of the 'idle and disorderly' in the context of the penal laws of the 1790s, when the terror of the French Revolution caused a crackdown on the beggars and vagrants who roamed the English countryside.
245 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 28, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9781409427056 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 230 |
| Dimensions | 166 × 240 × 20 mm · 592 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Jenkins, Professor Eugenia Zuroski |
| Series Editor | Lynch, Professor Jack |