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Language, custom, and nation in the 1790s; Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Language, custom, and nation in the 1790s; Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth.

Manly, Susan.

Ashgate Publishing Co.

2007

204 pages

$99.95

Hardcover

PR448

The revolutionary Romanticism and poetic experimentation of the decade is generally attributed to the American and French revolutions, but Manly (U. of St. Andrews, Scotland) traces it to 17th-century British philosopher John Locke. She traces the influence of Locke's ideas and terminology through John Horne Tooke to William Wordsworth, and seeks to establish Maria ...

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