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Article: Anne D. Wallace, Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century.(Book review)
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- Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Anne D. Wallace, Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century (Oxford: Clarendon P, 1993), 265 pp., $45.00 cloth.
Almost every time that a repairman comes to my house on a weekday, he inevitably remarks before he departs, "You must have the day off." To his outlook, it is apparently inconceivable that an adult male could work at home.
In her intriguing study, Anne D. Wallace explores in detail concepts of walking and working. She delights in considering some of the paradoxical perspectives that my opening personal anecdote suggests. How can an adult professional such as William Wordsworth both ...