| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 191 pages :) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Literature in history
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Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1 Arbitrary Power; 2 Words Are Things; 3 The Politics of Rhyme; 4 Vulgar Idioms; 5 "'A Subtler Language within Language'"; 6 The Language of Revolutionary Violence; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes over stylistic performance during this period. With clarity and force, Keach reads these phenomena in relation to a rapidly shifting literary ma. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
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Romanticism. |
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Great Britain. |
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Power (Social sciences) in literature.
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Power (Social sciences) in literature. |
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English language -- 19th century -- Rhetoric.
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English language. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Rhetoric. |
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English language -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
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English language -- Political aspects. |
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Politics and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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History. |
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Keach, William. Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2015 9780691168005 |
| ISBN |
9781400873241 |
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140087324X |
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0691117667 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691117669 |
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0691168008 |
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