“Vain dalliance with misery”: Moral Therapy in William Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage”

The following paper will examine how (male) speakers in William Wordsworth’s “The Baker’s Cart” and “Incipient Madness,” which eventually became reworked into “The Ruined Cottage,” narrate the histories of traumatised women. It will be argued that by distorting the women’s accounts of suffering i...

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Main Author: Piotr Kałowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of English Studies 2018-09-01
Series:Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
Online Access:http://www.anglica.ia.uw.edu.pl/images/pdf/27-1-articles/Anglica-27-1-2-Kalowski.pdf