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Tables of Contents for The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Note on Texts
x
Preface
xi
Introduction
xv
Paradigms Lost (and Regained): Eighteenth-Century Language Theory
1
32
The origin of language
4
17
Language and culture
21
2
Progress or degeneration?
23
4
The politics of grammar
27
6
Wordsworth, Radical Diction and the Real Language of Men
33
37
`Genuine' language: the prefaces to Lyrical Ballads
35
11
Knit to this his native soil
46
8
Conspiracies, revolutions, confederacies
54
13
A radical reform in the house of commons of literature
67
3
The `Cockney School' and Romantic Philology
70
41
Formal crests, graceful noses and The Story of Rimini
70
12
The brink of barbarism
82
3
Speaking loud and bold
85
3
Clarke and Shelley: defending Romantic philology
88
7
Reading the leaf-fring'd legend
95
2
Radical significations
97
2
Still unravish'd brides
99
7
Asterisk-reality
106
5
Keats, Condillac and Nathaniel Bailey
111
20
Keats's virtuous philosopher (a source for `Beauty is truth, truth beauty')
112
13
Keats, Condillac and language
125
2
Keats and Nathaniel Bailey
127
4
Nationalism and the Reception of Jacob Grimm by English-Speaking Audiences
131
25
Rask's review of Grimm's Grammatik
135
1
Prichard's Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations
135
3
John Mitchell Kemble and Continental philology
138
3
The Anglo-Saxon controversy
141
5
Misrepresentation in Wedgwood's review of Grimm
146
1
Winning's Manual of Comparative Philology
147
2
Donaldson's New Cratylus
149
2
Neaves's review of Grimm
151
1
Latham's English Language
152
2
Grimm's supporters in Britain
154
2
`Mere Air-Propelling Sounds': Tennyson and the Anxiety of Language
156
31
The whited sepulchre
157
5
Words - words - words
162
7
A hint of somewhat unexprest
169
3
Knowledge of their own supremacy
172
9
Strawn, strewn, strown
181
2
Genuine and vigorous English
183
4
Afterword
187
4
Notes
191
27
Bibliography
218
20
Index
238