Language, Custom and Nation in The 1790s |
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| Author:
| Manly, Susan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5832-0 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $99.95 |
Book Description:
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Susan Manly traces the influence of Locke on the poetic experimentation of the 1790s, breaking new ground by establishing Maria Edgeworth's place in Locke's anti-authoritarian tradition, while contending that the so-called Jacobin poetics of Lyrical Ballads actually neutralized Locke's radical impulse. Her 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.
Susan Manly traces the influence of Locke on the poetic experimentation of the 1790s, breaking new ground by establishing Maria Edgeworth's place in Locke's anti-authoritarian tradition, while contending that the so-called Jacobin poetics of Lyrical Ballads actually neutralized Locke's radical impulse. Her 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.