Thomas Gustafson

Representative Words

Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776 1865

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Produktbeschreibung

Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed the tradition of writing connecting political disorders and the corruption of language between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780521065641
• ISBN-10: 052106564X
• Artikelnr.: 23580639

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. The American Logocracy: The Nexus of Word and Act: 1. Political and linguistic representation: confidence or distrust?
2. Language and legal constitutions: the problem of change and who governs
Part II. Political and Linguistic Corruption: The Ideological Inheritance: 3. The classical pattern: from the order or Orpheus to the chaos of the Thucydidean moment
4. The Christian typology: From Eden to Babel to Pentecost
5. Eloquence, liberty, and power: civic humanism and the counter-renaissance
6. The enlightenment project: language reform and political order
Part III. The American Language of Revolution and Constitutional Change: 7. The language of revolution: combating misrepresentation with the pen and tongue
8. The grammar of politics: the constitution
Part IV. From Logomachy to Civil War: The Politics of Language in Post-Revolutionary America
9. The unsettled language: schoolmasters vs. truants
10. Corrupt language and a corrupt body politic, or the disunion of words and things
11. Sovereign words vs. representative men
Afterword
Notes
Index.