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'Yen's rich and fascinating study of The Excursion builds on Fiona Stafford's recent revaluing of the local to focus on the quiet functioning of local detail at a linguistic and metaphorical level through mediated images of rural landscape. Yen works sensitively within the form of the long poem, with its extended passages of argument and reflection, to tease out intratextual and intertextual recurrences that resonate across the whole. Across five categories of envisioning ; rooting , dwelling , flowing , and reflecting Yen pulls out the threads of allusion that link the language of the text into larger political events of the time, arguing for an iconographic power held in the figurative language of landscape. Methodologically sophisticated, the work both draws on and challenges the tenets of New Historicism so that, rather than displacing history, it seeks to awaken the history inherent within the allusive force of landscape imagery through a process of iconological interpretation. The writing is characterised by a remarkable attention to nuances of meaning, whilst the interpretation of political cartoons and symbols of the French Revolution grounds the argument in visual evidence. Brandon Yen's study treats The Excursion with the respect it deserves as a major work of the late Revolutionary period.' Sally Bushell, Professor of Romantic and Victorian Literature, Lancaster University.

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Brandon C. Yen is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and is co-author (with Peter Dale) of Wordsworth’s Gardens and Flowers: The Spirit of Paradise (2018).

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