{"product_id":"against-the-uprooted-word-giving-language-time-in-transatlantic-romanticism-hardback-9781503632769","title":"Against the Uprooted Word; Giving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism (Hardback) 9781503632769","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAgainst the Uprooted Word\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eGiving Language Time in Transatlantic Romanticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTristram Wolff (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503632769\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 11 October 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e338 pages, 3 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Uprooted Word\u003c\/i\u003e is a splendid piece of scholarship. It will be a welcome arrival to students across disciplines (including language studies and anthropology) in addition to charting the future of the literary field—romanticism—in which it is most immediately grounded.\"—William Galperin, author of \u003ci\u003eThe History of Missed Opportunities\u003c\/i\u003e \"Wolff reclaims the literary imaginary as a rich archive for rethinking linguistics and philology. This erudite, ranging, and provocative book has helped me to learn—and unlearn—a lot.\"—Maureen McLane, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Poets\u003c\/i\u003e \"The compelling conjunctions of imaginative literature and linguistic, philological, and proto-anthropological theories that [\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Uprooted Word\u003c\/i\u003e] presents make the most convincing case for the discrepant force of Romantic-era writing, and Wolff is an impressively erudite guide to this richly comparative, interdisciplinary, and trans-Atlantic Romanticism.\"—Nancy Yousef, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Romantic Review\u003c\/i\u003e \"The book's arguments are extraordinarily complex and nuanced. Wolff marshals an impressive erudition, an original theoretical synthesis (drawing on thinkers from Denise Ferreira da Silva to Valentin Voloshinov), and a fine sensitivity to minute inflections and reverberations of linguistic and poetic form.\"—Joseph Albernaz, \u003ci\u003eNineteenth-Century Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eAgainst the Uprooted Word\u003c\/i\u003e is an original, incisive study, a perceptive weaving together of various threads in recent Romanticist scholarship that revisits the familiar terrain of Romantic language theory in a consequential, disorienting, and ultimately hopeful way.\"—Jacob Risinger, \u003ci\u003eModern Philology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this revisionist account of romantic-era poetry and language philosophy, Tristram Wolff recovers vibrant ways of thinking language and nature together.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWolff argues that well-known writers including Phillis Wheatley Peters, William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Henry David Thoreau offer a radical chronopolitics in reaction to the \"uprooted word,\" or the formal analytic used to classify languages in progressive time according to a primitivist timeline of history and a hierarchy of civilization. Before the bad naturalisms of nineteenth-century race science could harden language into place as a metric of social difference, poets and thinkers try to soften, thicken, deepen, and dissolve it. This naturalizing tendency makes language more difficult to uproot from its active formation in the lives of its speakers. And its \"gray romanticism\" simultaneously gives language different kinds of time—most strikingly, the deep time of geologic form—to forestall the hardening of time into progress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReorienting romantic studies to consider colonialism's pervasive effects on theories of language origin, Wolff shows us the ambivalent position of romantics in this history. His reparative reading makes visible language's ability to reimagine social forms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Pulling Roots\u003cbr\u003e  1. Giving Language Time\u003cbr\u003e  2. The Transported Word: Wheatley's Part\u003cbr\u003e  3. Voices of the Ground: Blake's Language in Deep Time\u003cbr\u003e  4. Radical Diversions: Wordsworth's Overgrowth\u003cbr\u003e  5. The Primitive Today: Thoreau in the Wild\u003cbr\u003e  Conclusion: Deracination\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610680455448,"sku":"9781503632769","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/against-the-uprooted-word-giving-language-time-in-transatlantic-romanticism-hardback-9781503632769","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}