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- Title: Etymological Investments: The Political Economy of Language from Carlyle to Ruskin.
- Author : Nineteenth-Century Prose
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 230 KB
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This paper examines how the emerging field of "new philology" shaped the nineteenth-century critique of political economy advanced by Carlyle and Ruskin. Carlyle viewed the systematic rhetorical conventions of political economy as a threat to all forms of discourse. Written in a climate of rigorous philological debate, On Heroes and Hero-Worship sought through rhetorical eccentricity and linguistic innovation to resist the mechanization of language as a source of cultural meaning. Writing amidst very different philological debates later in the period, Ruskin developed Carlyle's implicit critique into a direct attack on political economy in Unto this Last, but, in attempting to reform rather than resist the discourse, deployed a systematic rhetoric that could only duplicate the machine of language. **********
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