Dorothy and William Wordsworth’s Joint-Labor in Grasmere, 1799-1802
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This essay explores Dorothy and William Wordsworth’s collaboration in home-making and writing during their early years in Town End. The siblings worked together in writing and home-making, and their writing and homemaking were mutually constitutive during their early Grasmere years. I attribute their successful integration of home-making into writing (and vice versa) to what I call the economy of sympathy, which helped them to work beyond the sexual division of labor and create a shared space within the home and with respect to writing. In this essay, I argue that the economy of sympathy was quintessential to the siblings’ homemaking endeavor in the Grasmere vale, by first analyzing the nature of the creative sibling sympathy. In addition, I demonstrate that both siblings understood the economy of sympathy, a concept that clearly manifested in their collaborative home-making and writing efforts. In Dorothy’s case, the economy of sympathy meant an ultimately good home-economics that she could practice in the home in the full sense of the word. In William’s case, however, the economy of sympathy also meant balancing between whole-hearted sympathy and individual selfinterest, as supported by my reading of Home at Grasmere (1800) and “Resolution and Independence” (1802). Through their different textual representations of homemaking and sympathy, they each construct different writing subject.
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This essay explores Dorothy and William Wordsworth’s collaboration in home-making and writing during their early years in Town End. The siblings worked together in writing and home-making, and their writing and homemaking were mutually constitutive during their early Grasmere years. I attribute their successful integration of home-making into writing (and vice versa) to what I call the economy of sympathy, which helped them to work beyond the sexual division of labor and create a shared space within the home and with respect to writing. In this essay, I argue that the economy of sympathy was quintessential to the siblings’ homemaking endeavor in the Grasmere vale, by first analyzing the nature of the creative sibling sympathy. In addition, I demonstrate that both siblings understood the economy of sympathy, a concept that clearly manifested in their collaborative home-making and writing efforts. In Dorothy’s case, the economy of sympathy meant an ultimately good home-economics that she could practice in the home in the full sense of the word. In William’s case, however, the economy of sympathy also meant balancing between whole-hearted sympathy and individual selfinterest, as supported by my reading of Home at Grasmere (1800) and “Resolution and Independence” (1802). Through their different textual representations of homemaking and sympathy, they each construct different writing subject.
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