Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865 |
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| Author:
| Gustafson, Thomas |
| Contribution by:
| Gelpi, Albert
Posnock, Ross |
| Series title: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-39512-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1993 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $177.00 |
Book Description:
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum 'The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language' belongs to a long tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language that stretches back in Western culture. Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed this tradition between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum 'The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language' belongs to a long tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language that stretches back in Western culture. Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed this tradition between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.