عنوان

Receiving revolution :

شماره

TLets310657

عنوان اصلي

Receiving revolution :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Jackson, Owen David

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

the newspaper press, revolutionary ideology and politics in Britain, 1789-1848

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Bristol

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2000

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

University of Bristol

امتياز متن

2000

متن يادداشت

Through a close reading of Bristol newspapers this thesis considers the intrusion ofrevolutionary idioms into the English language. This was a far more hesitant andnuanced process than the 'logocide' argued for by Burke whose notion of a 'linguisticterror' is overly dramatic. In adopting a longer term perspective and considering therevolutionary examples of 1830 and 1848, the violence of Burke's model is replacedby a more nuanced understanding of the range of idiomatic choices presented toBritish politics by the French experience.A brief introductory section addresses key historiographical and methodologicalissues. Chapter one explores the development of revolutionary reporting in the Bristolnewspapers between 1792 and 1848. The first half of the chapter examines the subtlecombination of idioms and rhetorical devices evident in the five Bristol titles for1792. Reports on French and British affairs operated within a consciously circulardiscourse founded on the interchangeability of 'signified' and 'referent'. In this waythe revolutionary example was fictionalised, demonised and emptied of any politicalvalue. The second half of the chapter then focuses on the decline of this discursiveloyalism over the period to 1848.Later chapters concentrate upon the trajectory of specific terms into British politicaldiscourse. Chapter two addresses two inter-related questions. Firstly, how did thepolarised discursive structure identified in chapter one incorporate examples ofBritish interaction with, and sympathy for, revolutionary France? Secondly, how didthe revolutionary notion of fraternite interact with, and influence, existing Britishidioms of inclusion and exclusion?Chapter three explores the revolutionary signifier, egalite, and the associated conceptsof democracy, meritocracy, socialism and communism. Finally, chapter fourexamines the interplay of an egalitarian, revolutionary liberte with older Britishconceptions of liberty, liberties, privilege, property, and patriarchy. In examining theinterplay of liberte and egalite with analogous British terms both chapters suggestthat by 1848 British political discourse owed more to the French paradigm than theeditors of the Bristol press cared to admit

موضوع مستند نشده

Bristol

موضوع مستند نشده

French revolution

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jackson, Owen David

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

University of Bristol

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y