Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, PoliticsPrinceton University Press, 28 jul 2015 - 208 páginas 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 marketplace and to the social pressures in Britain generated by the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, and the class antagonisms that culminated in the Peterloo Massacre. |
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... Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction David Quint, Epic and Empire: Politics and Generic Form from Virgil to Milton Alexander Welsh, The Hero of the Waverly Novels Susan Dunn, The Deaths of Louis XVI: Regicide and the ...
... Signs of their Ideas; not by any natural connexion, that there is between particular articulate sounds and certain Ideas, for then there would be but one Language amongst all Men; but by a voluntary Imposition, whereby such a Word is ...
... signs.8 As a result, Locke's linguistic discourse of the arbitrary is left confusingly vulnerable to those senses of the “despotic,” “willful,” and “capricious” that are dominant in his political discourse of the arbitrary. With ...
... signs are constituted through a “natural connexion” rooted in things, to restrict the signifying representational function of language “to thoughts alone.” In the political language of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries ...
... signs are arbitrarily coded.12 In general, however, semiotic and poststructuralist theory has tended to move on by taking the principle of arbitrariness as established and no longer interestingly problematic.13 This tendency is itself ...
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2 Words Are Things | 23 |
3 The Politics of Rhyme | 46 |
4 Vulgar Idioms | 68 |
5 A Subtler Language within Language | 95 |
6 The Language of Revolutionary Violence | 122 |
Notes | 159 |
Index | 185 |