Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s - Softcover

Manly, Susan

 
9781138356337: Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1138356336 ISBN 13: 9781138356337
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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Susan Manly

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138356336
ISBN 13 
9781138356337
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
212

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