French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830
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Anglo-French cultural exchange
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British writers attitudes toward French
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comparative literature studies
Cowper's Translation
Cowper’s Translation
De Main
De Vigny
eighteenth
English Grammar
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French Governesses
French Grammar
French Language
French Neoclassicism
French Poetry
French Poets
Gabrielle Suchon
Glasgow University
governesses
grammar
Knight Errant
Les
Les Aventures De
Les Jardins
linguistic historiography
long
Madame De Maintenon
Marceline Desbordes Valmore
Modern French Poetry
Modern Languages
neoclassicism to romanticism
restoration
Romantic period criticism
tmaque
translation theory
Vice Versa
Warrington Academy
William III
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781472465382
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 07 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the American War of Independence (1775-1783), the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1802 and 1803-1815, respectively), the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830), and the July Revolution (1830) - not to mention the gradual expansion of the British Empire, and the complex cultural shifts that led from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In this book, Marcus Tomalin reassesses the ways in which writers such as Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, William Cobbett, and William Hazlitt acquired and deployed French. This intricate topic is examined from a range of critical perspectives, which draw upon recent research into European Romanticism, linguistic historiography, comparative literature, social and cultural history, education theory, and translation studies. This interdisciplinary approach helps to illuminate the deep ambivalences that characterised British appraisals of the French language in the literature of the Romantic period.
Marcus Tomalin is a Fellow and Tutor at Downing College at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is also an Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge English Faculty.
