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Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions

Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions

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Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions

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Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions

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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

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Early American literature, 2020, Vol.55 (2), p.527-531

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English

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Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

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Tim Cassedy's Figures of Speech is one among a growing number of interesting titles offered in the University of Iowa Press series called Impressions: Studies in the Art, Culture, and Future of Books. Cassedy argues that during the era under analysis, people sought to have "a technology for stabilizing and unifying the English language across vast...

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Figures of Speech: Six Histories of Language and Identity in the Age of Revolutions

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2424919945

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2424919945

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0012-8163

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1534-147X

DOI

10.1353/eal.2020.0033

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