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Author | : Susan Manly |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2017-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351154265 |
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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. For too long the revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experiments of the 1790s have been understood as responses to the American and French revolutions or attributed to the intellectual influence of Rousseau. The author counters these assumptions, by tracing threads of influence from Locke's ideas of 'arbitrary' language and tyranny, through Tooke's attacks on terms such as 'majesty' and 'law', to the supposedly 'real language' of Wordsworthian Romanticism. She breaks new ground in establishing Maria Edgeworth's place in Locke's anti-authoritarian tradition, contending that Edgeworth's work, produced in the shadow of the United Irishmen uprising, revives the politicisation of the idea of common language displaced in Wordsworth's neutralizing of Locke's radical impulse in the preface to Lyrical Ballads. The author's original and engaging book will appeal to scholars of 1790s radicalism, eighteenth-century linguistic theory, women's writing, and the relations between Britain and Ireland.
Author | : J. Jones |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2010-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230106838 |
Download Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Against a historical backdrop that includes eighteenth-century language theory, children's literature and education, debates on the French Revolution, Biblical interpretation, and print culture, Blake on Language, Power, and Self-Annihilation breaks new ground in the study of William Blake. This book analyzes the concept of self-annihilation in Blake s work, using the language theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to elucidate the ways in which his discourse was open to the viewpoints of others, undermines institutional authority, and restores dialogue. This book not only uncovers the importance of self-annihilation to Blake's thinking about language and communication, but it also develops its centrality to Blake's poetic practice.
Author | : Julia M. Wright |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 2560 |
Release | : 2011-07-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1444351699 |
Download A Companion to Irish Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Featuring new essays by international literary scholars, the two-volume Companion to Irish Literature encompasses the full breadth of Ireland's literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present day. Covers an unprecedented historical range of Irish literature Arranged in two volumes covering Irish literature from the medieval period to 1900, and its development through the twentieth century to the present day Presents a re-visioning of twentieth-century Irish literature and a collection of the most up-to-date scholarship in the field as a whole Includes a substantial number of women writers from the eighteenth century to the present day Includes essays on leading contemporary authors, including Brian Friel, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, Roddy Doyle, and Emma Donoghue Introduces readers to the wide range of current approaches to studying Irish literature
Author | : Ann R. Hawkins |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2022-12-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317041747 |
Download The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Routledge Companion to Romantic Women Writers overviews critical reception for Romantic women writers from their earliest periodical reviews through the most current scholarship and directs users to avenues of future research. It is divided into two parts.The first section offers topical discussions on the status of provincial poets, on women’s engagement in children’s literature, the relation of women writers to their religious backgrounds, the historical backgrounds to women’s orientalism, and their engagement in debates on slavery and abolition.The second part surveys the life and careers of individual women – some 47 in all with sections for biography, biographical resources, works, modern editions, archival holdings, critical reception, and avenues for further research. The final sections of each essay offer further guidance for researchers, including “Signatures” under which the author published, and a “List of Works” accompanied, whenever possible, with contemporary prices and publishing formats. To facilitate research, a robust “Works Cited” includes all texts mentioned or quoted in the essay.
Author | : Padma Rangarajan |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0823263622 |
Download Imperial Babel Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain. Unlike other readings that cast colonial translation as primarily a tool for oppression, Rangarajan’s argues that translation changed both colonizer and colonized and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Imperial Babel explores the diverse political and cultural consequences of a variety of texts, from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siecle and from translation proper to its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants. Searching for translation’s trace enables a broader, more complex understanding of intellectual exchange in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced awareness of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century literature. Rangarajan argues that while bearing witness to the violence that underwrites translation in colonial spaces, we should also remain open to the irresolution of translation, its unfixed nature, and its ability to transform both languages in which it works.
Author | : John Kirk |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317320719 |
Download United Islands? The Languages of Resistance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first title in a new series called Poetry and Song in the Age of Revolution. This series will appeal to those involved in English literary studies, as well as those working in fields of study that cover Enlightenment, Romanticism and Revolution in the last quarter of the eighteenth century.
Author | : Yasmin Solomonescu |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-07-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137426144 |
Download John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
John Thelwall and the Materialist Imagination reassesses Thelwall's eclectic body of work from the perspective of his heterodox materialist arguments about the imagination, political reform, and the principle of life itself, and his contributions to Romantic-era science.
Author | : Henry Hitchings |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1429995033 |
Download The Language Wars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting values-morality, politics, and class. The Language Wars examines the present state of the conflict, its history, and its future. Above all, it uses the past as a way of illuminating the present. Moving chronologically, the book explores the most persistent issues to do with English and unpacks the history of "proper" usage. Where did these ideas spring from? Who has been on the front lines in the language wars? The Language Wars examines grammar rules, regional accents, swearing, spelling, dictionaries, political correctness, and the role of electronic media in reshaping language. It also takes a look at such details as the split infinitive, elocution, and text messaging. Peopled with intriguing characters such as Jonathan Swift, Lewis Carroll, and Lenny Bruce, The Language Wars is an essential volume for anyone interested in the state of the English language today or its future.
Author | : Janet Sorensen |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691210748 |
Download Strange Vernaculars Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's 'Dictionary' to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. 'Strange Vernaculars' delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the 'common people' and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from 'The New Canting Dictionary' to Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others"--Front jacket flap.
Author | : Pritipuspa Mishra |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108425739 |
Download Language and the Making of Modern India Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Explores the ways linguistic nationalism has enabled and deepened the reach of All-India nationalism. This title is also available as Open Access.