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

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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.

Author(s):Furniss, Thomas
Item type:Article
ID code:40011
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:29 May 2019 00:43
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