Download or read book The Politics of Language in Romantic Literature written by Richard Marggraf Turley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-12-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study examines a range of canonical and non-canonical materials to open a new narrative on the mutually illuminating interchange between Romantic literature and philological theory in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Arguing that philology can no longer be treated as something that did not happen to Romantic authors, this book undertakes a substantial revision of our understanding of the intellectual and political contexts that helped determine the Romantic consciousness