Language And Revolution In Burke Wollstonecraft Paine And Godwin

Author : Jane Hodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351923415

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Language and Revolution in Burke, Wollstonecraft, Paine, and Godwin by Jane Hodson Pdf

The Revolution in France of 1789 provoked a major 'pamphlet war' in Britain as writers debated what exactly had happened, why it had happened, and where events were now headed. Jane Hodson's book explores the relationship between political persuasion, literary style, and linguistic theory in this war of words, focusing on four key texts: Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Men, Thomas Paine's Rights of Man, and William Godwin's Enquiry Concerning Political Justice. While these texts form the core of Hodson's project, she ranges far beyond them to survey other works by the same authors; more than 50 contemporaneous books on language; and pamphlets, novels, and letters by other writers. The scope of her study permits her to challenge earlier accounts of the relationship between language and politics that lack historical nuance. Rather than seeing the Revolution debate as a straightforward conflict between radical and conservative linguistic practices, Hodson argues that there is no direct correlation between a particular style or linguistic concept and the political affiliation of the writer. Instead, she shows how each writer attempts to mobilize contemporary linguistic ideas to lend their texts greater authority. Her book will appeal to literature scholars and to historians of language and linguistics working in the Enlightenment and Romantic eras.

Author : Marilyn Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0521286565

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Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy by Marilyn Butler Pdf

Analysis of the great Revolution debate of late eighteenth century England, inspired by the French Revolution, reveals how the passions of oppositional writers were sufficiently aroused to create a "pamphlet war."

Author : Jon Mee,David Fallon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444393491

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Romanticism and Revolution by Jon Mee,David Fallon Pdf

Romanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s Provides an accessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin

Author : James T. Boulton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135026141

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The Language of Politics Routledge Library Editions: Political Science by James T. Boulton Pdf

This book focuses on the literature produced at the time of the controversy over Wilkes and the Middlesex elections and by the debate in England over the French Revolution. Writings by Junius, Johnson, Burke, Paine, Mackintosh, Wollstonecraft and Arthur Young among others are examined in order to identify and estimate the effectiveness of the persuasive techniques used by these writers to communicate ideas to their respective audiences. Godwin is also given a new assessment. A view of the extent and urgency over the French Revolution is provided by the chronological survey of replies to Burke’s Reflections given in an appendix.

Author : Steven Blakemore
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838637515

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Intertextual War by Steven Blakemore Pdf

These writers established the anti-Burke paradigms that continue to reverberate in Anglo-American criticism and the Revolution's historiography. To understand the significance of what they contend is being revealed is to begin to see what is being obscured - striking resemblances between themselves and the enemy they denounce.

Author : James T. Boulton
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X000129432

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The Language of Politics in the Age of Wilkes and Burke by James T. Boulton Pdf

Author : Pamela Clemit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493902

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The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution in the 1790s by Pamela Clemit Pdf

The French Revolution ignited the biggest debate on politics and society in Britain since the Civil War 150 years earlier. The public controversy lasted from the initial, positive reaction to French events in 1789 to the outlawing of the radical societies in 1799. This Cambridge Companion highlights the energy, variety and inventiveness of the literature written in response to events in France and the political reaction at home. It contains thirteen specially commissioned essays by an international team of historians and literary scholars, a chronology of events and publications, and an extensive guide to further reading. Six essays concentrate on the principal writers of the Revolution controversy: Burke, Paine, Godwin and Wollstonecraft. Others deal with popular radical culture, counter-revolutionary culture, the distinctive contribution of women writers, novels of opinion, drama, and poetry. This volume will serve as a comprehensive yet accessible reference work for students, advanced researchers and scholars.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004349360

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English Literature and the Disciplines of Knowledge, Early Modern to Eighteenth Century by Anonim Pdf

This volume focuses on how the conceptual and performative aspects of science connect it in important ways with literary discourses. It addresses the reception of science by authors of literature, as well as how ‘mimesis’ intersects with scientific discourse.

Author : Carine Lounissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319752891

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Thomas Paine and the French Revolution by Carine Lounissi Pdf

This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention, lobbyist, adviser to French governments, officious diplomat and propagandist. Using previously neglected sources and archival material, Carine Lounissi demonstrates both how his republicanism was challenged, bolstered and altered by this French experience, and how his positions at key moments of the history of the French experiment forced major participants in the Revolution to defend or question the kind of regime or of republic they wished to set up. As a member of the Lafayette circle when writing the manuscript of Rights of Man, of the Girondin constellation in the Convention, one of the few democrats who defended universal suffrage after Thermidor, and as a member of the Constitutional Circle which promoted a kind of republic which did not match his ideas, Paine baffled his contemporaries and still puzzles the present-day scholar. This book intends to offer a new perspective on Paine, and on how this major agent of revolutions contributed to the debate on the French Revolution both in France and outside France.

Author : Steven Blakemore
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838637140

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Crisis in Representation by Steven Blakemore Pdf

For Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Williams, the crisis in representation was actually a variety of representational crises. That they returned to the paradigms of the past to resolve the crisis signified that they were rewriting the Revolution within the textual space of the tradition they had originally opposed.

Author : Andrew McInnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315523156

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Wollstonecraft's Ghost by Andrew McInnes Pdf

Focusing on the ways in which women writers from across the political spectrum engage with and adapt Wollstonecraft's political philosophy in order to advocate feminist reform, Andrew McInnes explores the aftermath of Wollstonecraft's death, the controversial publication of William Godwin's memoir of his wife, and Wollstonecraft's reception in the early nineteenth century. McInnes positions Wollstonecraft within the context of the eighteenth-century female philosopher figure as a literary archetype used in plays, poetry, polemic and especially novels, to represent the thinking woman and address anxieties about political, religious, and sexual heterodoxy. He provides detailed analyses of the ways in which women writers such as Mary Hays, Elizabeth Hamilton, Amelia Opie, and Maria Edgeworth negotiate Wollstonecraft's reputation as personal, political, and sexual pariah to reformulate her radical politics for a post-revolutionary Britain in urgent need of reform. Frances Burney's The Wanderer and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, McInnes suggests, work as state-of-the-nation novels, drawing on Wollstonecraft's ideas to explore a changing England. McInnes concludes with an examination of Mary Shelley's engagement with her mother throughout her career as a novelist, arguing that Shelley gradually overcomes her anxiety over her mother's stature to address Wollstonecraft's ideas with increasing confidence.

Author : Georgina Green
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191003073

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The Majesty of the People by Georgina Green Pdf

The Majesty of the People links emerging Romantic ideas about the role of the writer to the ambivalence of the concept of popular sovereignty. By closely examining how theories about the role of the intellectual or the writer are developed as part of the 1790s' contestation of the concept of the majesty of the people, Georgina Green provides a coherent account of debates about popular sovereignty, and contributes to understanding of authorship and the rise of 'culture' in this period. Part one, 'the political existence of the people', shows how the history of ideas about the political role of the people in the eighteenth century meant there was a role for writers and organisations who could challenge the invisibility of the 'people out of doors'. Part two, 'the sovereignty of justice' shows how this urge to give the people a tangible form was moderated by the tension between the sovereignty of will and the sovereignty of justice, a tension foregrounded by Revolutionary France and addressed in the writing of Thomas Paine, Helen Maria Williams, and William Godwin. Part three analyses how this potential tension between popular sovereignty and absolute values such as reason, justice or divinity pressurizes Wordsworth and Coleridge's conception of their role as writers. These enquiries demonstrate the impact of the idea of the Majesty of the People in the 1790s and in emerging conceptions of the role of culture in society.

Author : Jack Fruchtman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801895371

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The Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine by Jack Fruchtman Pdf

A study of the work, philosophy, and life of the influential eighteenth-century American writer. This concise, thoughtful introduction to the work of Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and Rights of Man, explores the impact of one of the most influential minds of the American and French Revolutions and the sources from which his thinking evolved. In Jack Fruchtman Jr.’s helpful interpretation, Paine built his argument for radical revolution in 1776 on a study of nature and Providence and a belief in natural rights. Men and women owed it to themselves to break the chains of rank, hierarchy, and even organized religion in order to live freely, embracing the possibilities of invention, progress, and equality that lay ahead. In 1793, at the height of the French Revolution and its secularizing fury, Paine reminded readers that it was nature's God who created natural rights. The rights of man thus held out both the great potential of freedom and the requirement that human beings be responsible for those who were the least fortunate in society. On balance we may think of Paine as a secular preacher for the rule of reason. “A compelling portrait of Thomas Paine as a serious, complex, and often surprising writer. . . . This is a very useful volume for new students of U.S. political thought, as well as for scholars seeking a quick but illuminating overview of Paine’s writings and philosophy.” —Choice “A great way for the newcomer to appreciate the range, diversity, and raw power and brilliance of Paine's ideas.” —Claremont Review of Books “Fruchtman’s concise analysis is tightly focused. . . . A coherent vision of Paine’s work, encompassing his many contradictions.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK)

Author : Kenneth W Burchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000749830

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Thomas Paine and America, 1776-1809 Vol 1 by Kenneth W Burchell Pdf

From his migration to America in 1774 to his death in New York City in 1809, Thomas Paine's ideology was at the centre of American political and social debate. This six-volume facsimile edition brings together rare texts from books, periodicals and newspaper contributions to unearth the contemporary American response to Thomas Paine.

Author : Essaka Joshua
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108836708

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Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature by Essaka Joshua Pdf

This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.