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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... verse—takes on here as elsewhere in Don Juan an organizing life of its own. Could Byron have known that if he began with “kings” he would eventually come to “Revolution”/ “pollution”? Maybe not—and yet there is an undeniable political ...
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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 |