Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s

Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

Susan Manly (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-9014-5 (ISBN)

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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. The author 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. The author'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.

Susan Manly

Contents: Introduction; John Horne Tooke and linguistic equality; Custom and common language: the debate in the 1790s and its sources; Wordsworth and common cultivation: language, property, and nature; Maria Edgeworth and 'the genius of the people'; Afterword; Works cited; Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.01.2018
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8153-9014-9 / 0815390149
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-9014-5 / 9780815390145
Zustand	Neuware