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Representative Words
Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776\u20131865
Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.
Thomas Gustafson (Author)
9780521065641, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 19 June 2008
488 pages
23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.71 kg
\""There is an immense amount of reading in this book, and the work Gustafson has done will prove very helpful to others who want to travel his route.\""
David Simpson, Studies in Romanticism
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. Representative Words, which gives an account of the tradition from its classical and Chris]
Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776–1865
Representative Words
Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776\u20131865
Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.
Thomas Gustafson (Author)
9780521065641, Cambridge University Press
Paperback / softback, published 19 June 2008
488 pages
23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.71 kg
\""There is an immense amount of reading in this book, and the work Gustafson has done will prove very helpful to others who want to travel his route.\""
David Simpson, Studies in Romanticism
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. Representative Words, which gives an account of the tradition from its classical and Chris]
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