Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0691168008
ISBN13:9780691168005
Release Date:July 2015
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.72 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
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