Language, custom and nation in the 1790s : Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

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Language, custom and nation in the 1790s : Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth

Susan Manly

Ashgate, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index

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内容説明

"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.Susan Manly 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. Manly'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.

目次

  • Introduction
  • John Horne Tooke and Linguistic Equality: Introduction
  • Tooke, Locke and 'plain sense'
  • Locke, communication and community
  • Appropriating Locke in the 18th century: Burke, Bentham, Jones
  • Misappropriating Locke: Harris, Monboddo, and plain sense
  • Tooke and radical etymology: reclaiming Locke. Custom and Common Language: The Debate in the 1790s and its Sources: Introduction
  • Popular antiquarianism and reform
  • Linguistic custom and legislative grammarians
  • The usurpation of common use rights
  • Law and language in crisis: the 1790s
  • Thelwall, 'aggregate reason' and oral eloquence
  • Towards the 'real language of men'? Wordsworth and Common Cultivation: Language, Property, and Nature: Introduction
  • 'Commonness' in the Lyrical Ballads (1798)
  • Wordsworth's poetics of paradox and the regulation and control of 'the people'
  • Presence and loss of the visible
  • 'Men in cities' and the challenge to property
  • The properties of nature. Maria Edgeworth and 'The Genius of the People': Introduction
  • 'Things called by their right names'
  • The Edgeworths, Irish politics, and 'savage policy'
  • Constituting Ireland: the Essay on Irish Bulls (1802)
  • 'The criminal law of bulls and blunders'
  • 'Little Dominick', authority and independence
  • 'Ossian monuments of native speech' or the 'thoughts that breathe'
  • Conclusion: Edgeworth's 'historic doubts'. Afterword
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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