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.
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