The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature

by Palgrave Macmillan UK

Overview

This innovative study examines a range of canonical and non-canonical materials to open a new narrative on the mutually illuminating interchange between Romantic literature and philological theory in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Arguing that philology can no longer be treated as something that did not happen to Romantic authors, this book undertakes a substantial revision of our understanding of the intellectual and political contexts that helped determine the Romantic consciousness

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349428922
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/11/2002
Edition description:	1st ed. 2002
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

RICHARD MARGGRAF TURLEY is Honorary Lecturer in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is author of Writing Essays: A Guide for Students in English and the Humanities, and Keats's Boyish Imagination.

Table of Contents

Paradigms Lost (and Regained): Eighteenth-Century Language Theory Wordsworth, Radical Diction and the Real Language of Men The 'Cockney School'; and Romantic Philology Keats, Condillac and Nathaniel Bailey Nationalism, and the Reception of Jacob Grimm by English-Speaking Audiences 'Mere Air-Propelling Sounds': Tennyson and the Anxiety of Language Afterword Notes Bibliography Index