Romanticism on “the line?”: Wordsworth’s anti-railway rhetoric and the battle for sacred solitude in “Furness Abbey”

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Notes

1 See Christian Wolmar’s (2007) discussion of the railway engine in Fire and Steam, pp. 35–38.

2 See Gareth Campbell, “Deriving the Railway Mania” for a thorough analysis of the economic principles underpinning the 1845–1846 railway speculation bubble.

3 See R.A. Bryer, “Accounting for the ‘Railway Mania’ of 1845: A Great Railway Swindle?” for a detailed computation of the investments and speculative growth that exploded in the year 1845.

4 Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “Choir | Quire,” accessed January 30, https://www.oed.com/dictionary/choir_n?tab=meaning_and_use#9545949.

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Anna Paige Wingfield

AP Wingfield received a BA from William & Mary in 2019 and an MA from UVA in 2021. She is currently a second-year PhD Student at CU Boulder completing a dissertation on georgic adaptations and English nationalism in the long eighteenth century.