%0 Journal Article
%T Haunted Metre: Wordsworth¡¯s Subliminal Lyric
%A Adrian HARDING
%J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone
%D 2007
%I 
%R 10.4000/erea.166
%X Given Wordsworth¡¯s condemnation, in the 1800 Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, of the ¡°frantic novels, sickly and stupid German tragedies, and deluges of idle and extravagant stories in verse,¡± exciting the reading public¡¯s ¡°degrading thirst after outrageous stimulation¡± (LB 249), it has been customary to approach his relations to the Gothic in terms of readerships, grounded on or eventually grounding a sociology of reception. In this paper I am assuming the transference of the Gothic charge mo...
%U http://erea.revues.org/166