Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865

Name: Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865
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ISBN: 9780521395120

ISBN-10: 0521395127

ISBN-13: 9780521395120

Edition: 1992

Authors: Thomas Gustafson, Albert Gelpi, Ross Posnock

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Ralph Waldo Emerson's dictum--"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language"--belongs to a long tradition of writing, connecting political disorders and the corruption of language, that stretches back in Western culture. Representative Words, which gives an account of the tradition from its classical and Christian origins through the Enlightenment, is primarily a study of how and why Americans renewed and developed it between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars. It is the first comprehensive treatment of the background to and the appearance of the wealth of theories about language in the early era of American political and cultural discourse. Professor…

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List price: $174.99
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/29/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



The American Logocracy: The Nexus of Word and Act



Political and linguistic representation: confidence or distrust?



Language and legal constitutions: the problem of change and who governs



Political and Linguistic Corruption: The Ideological Inheritance



The classical pattern: from the order or Orpheus to the chaos of the Thucydidean moment



The Christian typology: From Eden to Babel to Pentecost



Eloquence, liberty, and power: civic humanism and the counter-renaissance



The enlightenment project: language reform and political order



The American Language of Revolution and Constitutional Change



The language of revolution: combating misrepresentation with the pen and tongue



The grammar of politics: the constitution



From Logomachy to Civil War: The Politics of Language in Post-Revolutionary America



The unsettled language: schoolmasters vs. truants



Corrupt language and a corrupt body politic, or the disunion of words and things



Sovereign words vs. representative men


Afterword


Notes


Index