Arbitrary Power : : Romanticism, Language, Politics / / William Keach.
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 Rom...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015] ©2004 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Literature in History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. Arbitrary Power
- 2. Words Are Things
- 3. The Politics of Rhyme
- 4. Vulgar Idioms
- 5. " 'A Subtler Language within Language' "
- 6. The Language of Revolutionary Violence
- Notes
- Index