Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgment

pp vii-viii

Abbreviations and Editions Cited

pp ix-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - The American Logocracy: The Nexus of Word and Act

pp 17-18

1 - Political and Linguistic Representation: Confidence or Distrust?

pp 19-36

2 - Language and Legal Constitutions: The Problem of Change and Who Governs

pp 37-66

Part II - Political and Linguistic Corruption: The Ideological Inheritance

pp 67-68

3 - The Classical Pattern: From the Order of Orpheus to the Chaos of the Thucydidean Momen

pp 69-98

4 - The Christian Typology: From Eden to Babel to Pentecost

pp 99-116

5 - Eloquence, Liberty, and Power: Civic Humanism and the Counter-Renaissance

pp 117-136

6 - The Enlightenment Project: Language Reform and Political Order

pp 137-192

Part III - The American Language of Revolution and Constitutional Change

pp 193-194

7 - The Language of Revolution: Combating Misrepresentation with the Pen and Tongue

pp 195-269

8 - The Grammar of Politics: The Constitution

pp 270-298

Part IV - From Logomachy to Civil War: The Politics of Language in Post-Revolutionary America

pp 299-300

9 - The Unsettled Language: Schoolmasters vs. Truants

pp 301-347

10 - Corrupt Language and a Corrupt Body Politic, or the Disunion of Words and Things

pp 348-371

11 - Sovereign Words vs. Representative Men

pp 372-396

Afterword

pp 397-400

Notes

pp 401-454

Index

pp 455-469

Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

pp 470-471