Peter Bell's Professions.
This article investigates the socioeconomic contexts of Wordsworth's Peter Bell in relation to Peter's 'profession' – to use Wordsworth's term, when he wrote that first among the 'great defects' of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner is that the protagonist 'has no distinct character ... in his profession o...
| Publicado en: | Romanticism Vol. 29; no. 3; pp. 226 - 239 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Oct2023
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