Document Type
Book Review
Publication Title
Wordsworth Circle
Publisher
Wordsworth Circle
Publication Date
Fall 2008
Volume
39
Issue
4
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature
Abstract
A Review by James C. McKusick. In Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s, Susan Manly demonstrates how a populist and materialist philosophy of language contributed to the radical politics and poetics of the British Romantic period. The distinctive scholarly contribution of Language, Custom and Nation, in the 1790s is to show how a Lockean theory of language provided a conceptual framework for some of the most radical and transformative political ideas of the 1790s.
Rights
©2008 Wordsworth Circle
Recommended Citation
McKusick, James C., "Susan Manly. Language, Custom and Nation in the 1790s: Locke, Tooke, Wordsworth, Edgeworth" (2008). English Faculty Publications. 14.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/eng_pubs/14