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This chapter will consider the importance of place (the Lake District) for teaching Wordsworth’s poetry. It is concerned with trying to articulate exactly how we can go about teaching literature about place, in place, and how our discipline might learn from, or respond to, the model of fieldwork provided by Geography. Whilst the first two parts of the chapter are concerned with the forms of interpretation and understanding involved in responding to literary works through place, the final section is more practical, presenting two different ways of teaching Romanticism in the Lakes.1
And to that place a Story appertains, Which, though it be ungarnish’d with events, Is not unfit, I deem, for the fire-side Or for the summer shade. (Wordsworth 1992: 253)
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Bushell, S. (2010). Teaching Wordsworth in the Lakes: the Literary Field Trip. In: Higgins, D., Ruston, S. (eds) Teaching Romanticism. Teaching the New English. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230276482_9
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