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Representative Words : Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865 (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Representative Words Politics Literature and the American Language 17761865 - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Author: Thomas Gustafson
Ralph 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 thro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521395120
ISBN-10: 0521395127
Publication Date: 1/29/1993
Pages: 485
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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