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Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American-Language, 1776-1865

Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American-Language, 1776-1865
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  • ISBN-13: 9780521395120
  • ISBN: 0521395127
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Gustafson, Thomas, Gelpi, Albert, Posnock, Ross

SUMMARY

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. Thomas Gustafson examines how and why Americans renewed and developed this tradition between the ages of the Revolutionary and the Civil Wars.Gustafson, Thomas is the author of 'Representative Words Politics, Literature, and the American-Language, 1776-1865' with ISBN 9780521395120 and ISBN 0521395127.

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