1st Edition
Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth
By Susan Manly
Copyright 2007
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
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Susan Manly
