Effervescence
Alan Ryan, 9 November 1989
Burke and the Fall of Language: The French Revolution as Linguistic Event
by Steven Blakemore.
University Press of New England, 115 pp., £10, April 1989,0 87451 452 5 Show More
by Steven Blakemore.
University Press of New England, 115 pp., £10, April 1989,
The Impact of the French Revolution on European Consciousness
edited by H.T. Mason and William Doyle.
Sutton, 205 pp., £17.95, June 1989,0 86299 483 7 Show More
edited by H.T. Mason and William Doyle.
Sutton, 205 pp., £17.95, June 1989,
The French Revolution and the Enlightenment in England 1789-1832
by Seamus Deane.
Harvard, 212 pp., £19.95, November 1988,0 674 32240 1 Show More
by Seamus Deane.
Harvard, 212 pp., £19.95, November 1988,
“... political and social upheavals of a wholly unparalleled kind. It is on this theme that Stephen Blakemore focuses his attention. Burke and the Fall of Language concentrates on the writer who was more aware than anyone – other than his mortal enemy Rousseau – of the extent to which politics is not just described but actually constituted by the language ... ”
