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Romanticism, Revolution and Language : The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot
ISBN: 9780521897556 | 0521897556
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 5/11/2009
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A leading scholar in Romantic literature and theology, John Beer offers a persuasive new account of post-revolutionary continuities between the major Romantic writers and their Victorian successors. This book traces the impact of revolution on language, from Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth, to Hazlitt, Austen, Gaskell and George Eliot.
The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone ... MORE
The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone ... MORE
| Index | |
| Preface and acknowledgments | p. vii |
| List of abbreviations | p. viii |
| 'Democracy' in Somerset and beyond | p. 1 |
| Politics, sensibility and the quest for adequacy of language | p. 21 |
| The heart of Lyrical Ballads | p. 45 |
| The Prelude: a poem in process | p. 61 |
| Words or images? Blake's representation of history | p. 80 |
| Blake, Coleridge and 'The R... MORE | p. 99 |
| Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the Word | p. 113 |
| The Nature of Hazlitt's taste | p. 132 |
| Jane Austen's progress | p. 156 |
| Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontes | p. 175 |
| George Eliot and the future of language | p. 200 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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