… Lyrical Ballads (1800), he accordingly asserts himself as ‘a man speaking to men’ and endeavours to speak in ‘the real language of men in a state of vivid excitement’. 2 The linguistic and sociological ‘experiments’ ( Prose I, 116) that …
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… finances to the reading public. Selling tens of thousands of copies within weeks and being translated into several languages, the compte rendu famously projected a 10 million livre surplus in the monarchy’s accounts despite France being …
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… charged a hefty twenty-four livre membership fee while another charged only six livres. 8 Jacobins may have spoken the language of ‘equality’, but they did not abandon class in politically organising during the early years of the …
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… Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress’, The European Magazine, March 1787. Acting as a bridge between different languages, Williams, who described herself in 1790 as a ‘citizen of the world' (Williams, 2001, 69) translated the works …
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