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by Mark Bruhn (Author)
Drawing extensively upon archival resources and manuscript evidence, Wordsworth Before Coleridge rewrites the early history of Wordsworth's intellectual development and thereby overturns a century-old consensus that derives his most important philosophical ideas from Coleridge.
Author Biography
Mark J. Bruhn, Professor of English at Regis University (Denver, Colorado), holds a PhD in English from Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He is coeditor of Cognition, Literature, and History (Routledge, 2014) and guest editor of a special double-issue of Poetics Today on "Poetics and Cognitive Science" (2011). Bruhn has published widely on English literature from Chaucer and Spenser to Wallace Stevens and Margaret Atwood, and recent essays on Wordsworth in particular appear in The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Literary Studies (2015), The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth (2015), and The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism (2017).
