Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot - Couverture souple

Beer, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1107412625 ISBN 13 : 9781107412620

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

A examination of the continuities between Romantic and Victorian authors from a highly respected senior scholar of Romanticism.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

'... [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...' Romanticism

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1107412625
• ISBN 13: 9781107412620
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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