The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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