pr447.b38 2009 820.90 145–dc22 2008054303 ISBNĬambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Politics and literature–Great Britain–History–19th century. Politics and literature–Great Britain–History–18th century. Literature and revolutions–Great Britain–History–19th century. Literature and revolutions–Great Britain–History–18th century. France–History–Revolution, 1789–1799–Influence. English literature–19th century–History and criticism. English literature–18th century–History and criticism. Romanticism, revolution and language : the fate of the word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot / John Beer. First published 2009 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Beer, John B. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. ROMANTICISM, REVOLUTION AND LANGUAGE The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George EliotĬambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sa˜o Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge cb2 8ru, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: # John Beer 2009 This publication is in copyright. He was Stanton Lecturer in the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge for 2006–7. He has published widely on Romantic literature, especially on Coleridge, Wordsworth and Blake, as well as on Victorian and modern literature.
john beer is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse. A leading scholar in Romantic literature and theology, John Beer offers a persuasive new account of post-revolutionary continuities between the major Romantic writers and their Victorian successors. This book traces the impact of revolution on language, from William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, to William Hazlitt, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot. Even the authority of language as a cornerstone of knowledge was called into question and the founding principles of intellectual disciplines challenged, as Romantic writers developed new ways of expressing their philosophy of the imagination and the human heart. ROMANTICISM, REVOLUTION AND LANGUAGE The repercussions of the French Revolution included erosion of many previously held certainties in Britain, as in the rest of Europe.
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