{"product_id":"representative-words-politics-literature-and-the-american-language-1776-1865-paperback-9780521065641","title":"Representative Words; Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776–1865 (Paperback \/ softback) 9780521065641","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eRepresentative Words\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776–1865\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThomas 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.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eThomas Gustafson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521065641, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 19 June 2008\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e488 pages\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm, 0.71 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\"There is an immense amount of reading in this book, and the work Gustafson has done will prove very helpful to others who want to travel his route.\"   David Simpson, Studies in Romanticism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eRalph 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 Gustafson's argument demonstrates the interconnectedness of the state of language and the state of society and turns on the question of representation and misrepresentation - whether and how words represent or misrepresent nature, social reality, truth, and value in the new American experiment in representative republican government.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The American Logocracy: The Nexus of Word and Act: 1. Political and linguistic representation: confidence or distrust?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Language and legal constitutions: the problem of change and who governs\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Christian typology: From Eden to Babel to Pentecost\u003cbr\u003e 5. Eloquence, liberty, and power: civic humanism and the counter-renaissance\u003cbr\u003e 6. The enlightenment project: language reform and political order\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The American Language of Revolution and Constitutional Change: 7. The language of revolution: combating misrepresentation with the pen and tongue\u003cbr\u003e 8. The grammar of politics: the constitution\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. From Logomachy to Civil War: The Politics of Language in Post-Revolutionary America\u003cbr\u003e 9. The unsettled language: schoolmasters vs. truants\u003cbr\u003e 10. Corrupt language and a corrupt body politic, or the disunion of words and things\u003cbr\u003e 11. Sovereign words vs. representative men\u003cbr\u003e Afterword\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20c%201800%20to%20c%201900%20%20%5BDSBF%5D%22\"\u003eDSBF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46006297166104,"sku":"9780521065641","price":39.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521065641i.jpg?v=1694969058","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/representative-words-politics-literature-and-the-american-language-1776-1865-paperback-9780521065641","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}