Carlyle and the Economics of Terror: A Study of Revisionary Gothicism in The French RevolutionMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 10.01.1995 - 152 Seiten Using Aristotle's oikonomia to establish a paradigm of wholeness and authentic engagement, Desaulniers argues that Carlyle returns language to material wholeness by insisting on situating sign within representation so that the materiality of the sign is not surrendered to the idea imposed on it. By focusing on reading as an act of Constitution within The French Revolution, she places the political crisis within a linguistic one: the Constitution becomes both a thematic and self-reflexive constituent of the linguistic process. Desaulniers concentrates on Carlyle's use of Gothic conventions, drawing upon Goethe's Faust and the Gothic romances of Maturin and Lewis. Establishing The French Revolution as a precursor to Browning's Sordello, she illustrates that the "economics" of representation remains a pivotal nineteenth-century linguistic strategy. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 3 |
1 Carlyle and the Economics of Terror | 9 |
2 Faustian Analogues | 34 |
3 Economics and Economy in The French Revolution | 60 |
4 Economics and Economy in the Kings Glorious Body | 94 |
Sordello and the Economics of Representation | 105 |
Conclusion | 120 |
Notes | 123 |
Bibliography | 129 |
137 | |
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abstracted allegory arbitrary author and reader barter economy Bastille becomes Biographia Literaria brotherhood Browning Browning's Burke Carlyle Carlyle's Gothicism Carlylean circulation claims Coleridge Coleridge's communion Constitution contractarian dialectical Diamond Necklace discourse economics of terror emerges epic equivalence Eucharist event exchange value Faust Faustian Feast of Pikes France French Revolution Gardes Françaises genuine god-term Goethe Goethe's Goito gold Gothic voice Ibid ideal reader idiom imperative implicit incarnation insists Kant Kant's Kenneth Burke King King's labour language logic Loménie Louis Manichean masque masquerade Maturin means medal Melmoth the Wanderer Mephistopheles metaphor misreading Monçado money economy motivated narrative National nature paper currency participate patriots Pentad perceived Plutus political produce prophetic reader Quotations are cited reading remains representation revolutionary Rohan Rousseau royal body scene sense Social Contract Sordello soul stands substance superannuated symbol synecdochic thing third term tion transcendent trope unconditional unmasking Vernunft vision wager whole word writes Young Charioteer