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Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics
William Keach
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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691117669
SKU
V9780691117669
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About William Keach
William Keach is Professor of English at Brown University. He is the author of "Shelley's Style" and the editor of "Coleridge: The Complete Poems".
Reviews for Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics
"I cannot think of a critical book that I have read in recent years that has impressed me more."
Richard Cronin, Wordsworth Circle
Richard Cronin, Wordsworth Circle