
Romanticism, Revolution and Language
The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot
John Beer(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 3. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
246 pages
978-1-107-41262-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 of knowledge was called into question and the founding principles of intellectual disciplines challenged, as Romantic writers developed new ways of expressing their philosophy of the imagination and the human heart. This book traces the impact of revolution on language, from William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, to William Hazlitt, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. 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.
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'... [a] penetrating, learned and brilliant study ...' The Gaskell Journal 'Romanticism, Revolution and Language is unquestionably a major achievement. It reexamines a tradition that John Beer has made peculiarly his own...' RomanticismMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-41262-0 (9781107412620)
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The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot
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Content
1. 'Democracy' in Somerset and beyond; 2. Politics, sensibility and the adequacy of language; 3. The heart of Lyrical Ballads; 4. The Prelude: a poem in process; 5. Words or images? Blake's representation of history; 6. Blake, Coleridge, and 'The Riddle of the World'; 7. Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the word; 8. The nature of Hazlitt's taste; 9. Jane Austen's progress; 10. Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontes; 11. George Eliot and the future of language; Index.