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"Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s" shows for the first time how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas of a 'revolutionary' poetry, were impelled-even 'invented'-by the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. For too long, the revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experiments of the 1790s have been understood as responses to the American and French revolutions or attributed to the intellectual influence of Rousseau.Susan Manly counters these assumptions, by tracing threads of influence from Locke's ideas of 'arbitrary' language and tyranny, through Tooke's attacks on terms such as 'majesty' and 'law', to the supposedly 'real language' of Wordsworthian Romanticism. She breaks new ground in establishing Maria Edgeworth's place in Locke's anti-authoritarian tradition, contending that Edgeworth's work, produced in the shadow of the United Irishmen uprising, revives the politicisation of the idea of common language displaced in Wordsworth's neutralizing of Locke's radical impulse in the preface to Lyrical Ballads. Manly's original and engaging book will appeal to scholars of 1790s radicalism, eighteenth-century linguistic theory, women's writing, and the relations between Britain and Ireland.
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Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s - Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth
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Ashgate, Aldershot & Burlington, 2007
ISBN 10: 0754658325
ISBN 13: 9780754658320
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Da: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Regno Unito
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Hardback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. 2007. [vii], 204pp. Black and white illustrations. "Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s" shows for the first time how the radical 'Jacobin' poets, and their ideas of a 'revolutionary' poetry, were impelled-even 'invented'-by the seventeenth-century English philosopher John Locke. For too long, the revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experiments of the 1790s have been understood as responses to the American and French revolutions or attributed to the intellectual influence of Rousseau.Susan Manly counters these assumptions, by tracing threads of influence from Locke's ideas of 'arbitrary' language and tyranny, through Tooke's attacks on terms such as 'majesty' and 'law', to the supposedly 'real language' of Wordsworthian Romanticism. She breaks new ground in establishing Maria Edgeworth's place in Locke's anti-authoritarian tradition, contending that Edgeworth's work, produced in the shadow of the United Irishmen uprising, revives the politicisation of the idea of common language displaced in Wordsworth's neutralizing of Locke's radical impulse in the preface to Lyrical Ballads. Manly's original and engaging book will appeal to scholars of 1790s radicalism, eighteenth-century linguistic theory, women's writing, and the relations between Britain and Ireland." Bbook and unclipped jacket as new. Codice articolo LitCrit156
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