Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series)
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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. Representative Words, which gives an account of the tradition from its classical and Christian origins through the Enlightenment, is primarily a study of how and why Americans renewed and developed it between the...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:052106564X
ISBN13:9780521065641
Release Date:June 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:488 Pages
Weight:1.56 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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