Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s

Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s by Susan Manly, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Susan Manly ISBN: 9781351154260
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: November 30, 2017
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Susan Manly
ISBN: 9781351154260
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: November 30, 2017
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book The Future of Broadcasting by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Reshaping Education In The 1990s by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Organizational Surveys by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Education Policy and Social Class by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Japan's Asia Policy by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Not the Future We Ordered by Susan Manly
Cover of the book May Sinclair by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Contemporary African American Theater by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Bulimia by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Women's Activism and Globalization by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Religion and Change in Modern Britain by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Creative Demobilisation by Susan Manly
Cover of the book The Power of the Bull by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Managing Cultural Differences by Susan Manly
Cover of the book Sound Assistance by Susan Manly
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy