여행자의 집쓰기 행위: 워즈워드, 1798-1802

Abstract

This study aims at analyzing William Wordsworth’s writings through the theoretical framework of travel literature, a framework that recently gains academic attentions. In doing so, it intends to, first, draw out the features of communal identity with which Wordsworth has been preoccupied since he had a residence of his own at Grasmere and, second, examine how the poet utilizes these features in practicing his poetic imagination. The rhetoric of travel, especially after eighteenth century, is closely related to modernity. This is to say that the rhetoric has grown out of newly arising forms of industrialism, commercialism, and public transporting systems. Wordsworth suggests that self-identity is inextricably bound up with the identity of community in the mode of representation. Most of all, Wordsworth’s idea of community prioritizes collective feeling; for this, he endeavors to expand the reader’s capacity to feel by his poetry.