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Kramer Imagining Language in America
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From the Revolution to the Civil War
E-Book, Englisch, Band 1213, 260 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6226-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
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FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. vii
Preface, pg. ix
Acknowledgments, pg. xv
Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works, pg. xvii
Introduction: The Study of Language and the American Renaissance, pg. 1
Chapter One. “NOW is the Time, and This is the Country”: How Noah Webster Invented American English, pg. 35
Chapter Two. “A Fine Ambiguity”: Longfellow, Language, and Literary History, pg. 64
Chapter Three. “A Tongue According”: Whitman and the Literature of Language Study, pg. 90
Chapter Four. Consensus through Ambiguity: Why Language Matters to The Federalist, pg. 119
Chapter Five. Language in a “Christian Commonwealth”: Horace Bushnell’s Cultural Criticism, pg. 137
Chapter Six. Beyond Symbolism: Philosophy of Language in The Scarlet Letter, pg. 162
Conclusion: From Logocracy to Renaissance, pg. 198
Notes, pg. 203
Index, pg. 235