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Author Beer, John B.

Title Romanticism, revolution and language : the fate of the word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot / John Beer.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 'Democracy' in Somerset and beyond -- Politics, sensibility and the quest for adequacy of language -- The heart of Lyrical ballads -- The prelude: a poem in process -- Words or images? Blake's representation of history -- Blake, Coleridge and 'The riddle of the world' -- Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the word -- The nature of Hazlitt's taste -- Jane Austen's progress -- Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontës -- George Eliot and the future of language.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Summary Examines the impact the French Revolution had on Europe, discussing how it influenced the language and work of Romantic writers and theologians, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, William Blake, and George Eliot.
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Subject Revolution (France : 1789-1799)
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
Literature and revolutions -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Literature and revolutions.
Great Britain.
History.
Literature and revolutions -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Politics and literature.
Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
Chronological Term 1700-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Beer, John B. Romanticism, revolution and language. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521897556 (DLC) 2008054303 (OCoLC)286433808
ISBN 9780511769566 (electronic book)
0511769563 (electronic book)
9780521897556
0521897556