Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

ISBN-13: 9780815390145 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 212 str.

Susan Manly

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; John Horne Tooke and linguistic equality; Custom and common language: the debate in the 1790s and its sources; Wordsworth and common cultivation: language, property, and nature; Maria Edgeworth and 'the genius of the people'; Afterword; Works cited; Index.

O autorze

Susan Manly