Romanticism, Revolution and Language
The Fate of the Word From Samuel Johnson to George Eliot
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Publisher Description
A leading scholar in Romantic literature and theology, John Beer offers a persuasive new account of post-revolutionary continuities between the major Romantic writers and their Victorian successors. This book traces the impact of revolution on language, from Blake, Coleridge and Wordsworth, to Hazlitt, Austen, Gaskell and George Eliot.