Burke, Paine, and the language of assignats

Furniss, Thomas (1989) Burke, Paine, and the language of assignats. Yearbook of English Studies, 19. pp. 54-70. ISSN 0306-2473

Abstract

I argue that the implicit relationship, in Wealth of Nations, between the new economics and a 'violent' rhetorical practice and theory - together with the ambivalent attitude towards new practices which at once augment and threaten 'real' wealth or 'real' meaning - forms one of the major sites of struggle between Burke and Paine at a critical juncture in the transition from agrarian to bourgeois capitalism.

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Furniss, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9832-940X

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	40011
  Dates:	Date Event 1989 Published
  Keywords:	Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, language, economics, Language and Literature
  Subjects:	Language and Literature
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	13 Jun 2012 10:08
  Last modified:	18 Jan 2023 09:23
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  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/40011