Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 ‘Democracy’ in Somerset and beyond
- 2 Politics, sensibility and the quest for adequacy of language
- 3 The heart of Lyrical Ballads
- 4 The Prelude: a poem in process
- 5 Words or images? Blake's representation of history
- 6 Blake, Coleridge and ‘The Riddle of the World’
- 7 Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the Word
- 8 The Nature of Hazlitt's taste
- 9 Jane Austen's progress
- 10 Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontës
- 11 George Eliot and the future of language
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 August 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 ‘Democracy’ in Somerset and beyond
- 2 Politics, sensibility and the quest for adequacy of language
- 3 The heart of Lyrical Ballads
- 4 The Prelude: a poem in process
- 5 Words or images? Blake's representation of history
- 6 Blake, Coleridge and ‘The Riddle of the World’
- 7 Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the Word
- 8 The Nature of Hazlitt's taste
- 9 Jane Austen's progress
- 10 Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontës
- 11 George Eliot and the future of language
- Index
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- Romanticism, Revolution and LanguageThe Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot, pp. v - viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009