Solitude and Sociability
Wordsworth on Helvellyn
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12880880 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Rovee (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | **-** |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1741-4113 • E-ISSN: 1741-4113 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00091.x |
| OpenAlex | W2144046864 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Wordsworth is often viewed as the iconic figure of a Romanticism defined by solitude and introspection. Nowhere is this perception more apparent than in the critical acclaim granted Benjamin Robert Haydon's portrait, Wordsworth on Helvellyn. By looking more closely at the origins and nineteenth-century reception of this portrait, however, we begin to understand this most canonical of images as less isolationist than interactive – as, against expectation, a shining point of departure for thinking about Romantic sociability. Looking to less canonical and intrinsically social genres of painting and writing – portraits and letters – as barometers of Romantic sociability, and also to the Victorian reception of Wordsworth on Helvellyn, this article illuminates an unexpectedly social “Wordsworth.”
Art · Art history · Cognitive psychology · Introspection · Literature · Painting · Perception · Portrait · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Romanticism · Solitude · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Historical Art and Culture Studies · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |