附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-347) and index
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Making language and making it safe for science and society: from Francis Bacon to John Locke; 3 Creating modernity's others in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century England: antiquarian and philological inflections; 4 The critical foundations of national epic and the rhetoric of authenticity: Hugh Blair and the Ossian controversy; 5 Language, poetry, and Volk in eighteenth-century Germany: Johann Gottfried Herder's construction of tradition
摘要:Argues that conscious development of new ways of thinking about language had a crucial role in modern history, particularly the discovery of how apparently objective differences between languages legitimated social inequalities
