Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin

Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin
ISBN-10
0754654036
ISBN-13
9780754654032
Category
History
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
2007-01-01
Publisher
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Author
Jane Hodson

Description

Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in four key texts on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and William Godwin. Situating these texts in the context of more than 50 contemporaneous books on language, as well as pamphlets, novels, and letters, Hodson challenges the notion that the Revolution debate was a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices.

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