Arbitrary Power: Romanticism, Language, Politics

by William Keach

Book Overview

This book explores previously unexamined links between the arbitrary as articulated in linguistic theories on the one hand, and in political discourse about power on the other. In particular, Willam Keach shows how Enlightenment conceptions of the arbitrary were contested and extended in British Romantic writing. In doing so, he offers a new paradigm for understanding the recurrent problem of verbal representation in Romantic writing and the disputes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691168008
• ISBN13: 9780691168005
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"