Romanticism, Revolution and Language : The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot (Paperback)

1. 'Democracy' in Somerset and beyond; 2. Politics, sensibility and the adequacy of language; 3. The heart of Lyrical Ballads; 4. The Prelude: a poem in process; 5. Words or images? Blake's representation of history; 6. Blake, Coleridge, and 'The Riddle of the World'; 7. Challenges from the non-verbal and return to the word; 8. The nature of Hazlitt's taste; 9. Jane Austen's progress; 10. Languages of memory and passion: Tennyson, Gaskell and the Brontes; 11. George Eliot and the future of language; Index.