Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century: Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred...

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Keith Hanley (Lancaster University, UK)

Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century

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Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary

Keith Hanley (Lancaster University, UK)

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Bloomsbury Academic
10 July 2025

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Christian worship, rites & ceremonies

Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature

Using Wordsworth as a focal point, this book describes how, in the period of Romanticism and beyond, the historical practice of pilgrimage became internalised figuratively and psychologically so as to represent Christian discourse in nineteenth-century English literature.

It surveys the imaginative relocation of Jerusalem and Rome to real and present places, thereby creating the nation’s sacred imaginary. Wordsworth is presented as central to founding a literary religious discourse on the sacred site of the Lake District. Also explored are the ways in which other Victorian writers such as Ruskin and Newman participated in that construction by their own literary pilgrimages.

Overall, this book revises assumptions about the decline of the religious imagination in nineteenth-century English literature and fundamentally reappraises the function of Romantic and Victorian representations of the sacred in forming the nation and empire.

By: Keith Hanley (Lancaster University UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781350476004
ISBN 10: 1350476005
Series: New Directions in Religion and Literature
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 10 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Undergraduate , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction The Sacred Imaginary Continuities The Sacred Symbolic Psychological Pilgrimage This Book Part I. The Return of the Sacred 1 Romantic Sacralization The New Dawn The Wordsworth Paradigm 2 Literary Pilgrimage The English Lakes New Jerusalems Rome Part II. Wordsworth's Grand Pilgrimage 3 The Interior Journey A Silent Echo The Boys of Winander Redoublings ‘Winander’ 4 The Anglican Sublime Sublimes Brotherly Faculties Crossings The Sacred Nation 5 Excursions Return Journeys The Irish Tour The Via Media Part III. Sacred Spaces Preamble 6 Three Psychogeographies Wordsworth’s ‘Sacred Ground’ Ruskin ‘On the Old Roads’ Newman’s Itinerary of Assent Select Bibliography Index

Keith Hanley is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Lancaster University, UK.

Reviews for Wordsworth and English Literary Pilgrimage in the Nineteenth Century: Refashioning the Nation’s Sacred Imaginary

Keith Hanley is a very well-known scholar, eminent in his field, who has published excellent material on Wordsworth and Victorian topics. After long study of Victorian literature, he has written a book which brings his research to its culmination. Cogently argued and imaginatively illustrated, it treats judiciously selected texts in an informative manner, pitching itself well for lay reader and scholar alike. It is rare to find a scholar who so ably combines a gift for theory with an ability to provide close reading. * Professor Lucy Newlyn, Emeritus Fellow in English, University of Oxford, UK * Keith Hanley brings together the fruits of a lifetime's study of the long nineteenth century in following the geographical and psychic trails of Wordsworth, Ruskin and Newman who all travelled far in order to reestablish a specifically British sacred imaginary. Contesting secularising narratives, the study offers compelling readings of Wordsworth's development of an Anglican sublime, while discerning in all three of its literary subjects a psychogeography of the spirit. Erudite and elegant, this study takes familiar writers to new places. * Alison Milbank, Emeritus Professor of Theology and Literature, University of Nottingham, UK *