Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Provincial Glossary
Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A Provincial Glossary
Author: Francis GrosePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331902105
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Excerpt from A Provincial Glossary: With a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions Duction of more fashionable terms; and, couse quently, only retained in countries remote from the capital, where modern refinements do not easily find their way, and are not readily adopted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Provincial Glossary
Author: Francis GrosePublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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A Provincial Glossary with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions
Author: Francis GroseCatalogue of the Choice Collection of Books Forming the Library of Zelotes Hosmer ...
Author: Zelotes HosmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Catalogue of the Choice Collection of Books Forming the Library of Zelotes Hosmer, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., Illustrative of Early English Literature and Standard Authors ... Together with Rare Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics ... Which Will be Sold by Auction by Leonard & Co., at Their Library Salesroom, 49, Tremont Street, Boston, on Tuesday, May 7, 1861, and Three Following Days, Each Day at Ten O'clock Precisely
Author: Leonard and CompanyA Provincial Glossary
Author: Francis GrosePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781294910053
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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A Provincial Glossary; with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions
Author: Francis GroseA Provincial Glossary
Author: Francis 1731?-1791 GrosePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014282804
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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The Invention of the Oral
Author: Paula McDowellPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645701X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Just as today’s embrace of the digital has sparked interest in the history of print culture, so in eighteenth-century Britain the dramatic proliferation of print gave rise to urgent efforts to historicize different media forms and to understand their unique powers. And so it was, Paula McDowell argues, that our modern concepts of oral culture and print culture began to crystallize, and authors and intellectuals drew on older theological notion of oral tradition to forge the modern secular notion of oral tradition that we know today. Drawing on an impressive array of sources including travel narratives, elocution manuals, theological writings, ballad collections, and legal records, McDowell re-creates a world in which everyone from fishwives to philosophers, clergymen to street hucksters, competed for space and audiences in taverns, marketplaces, and the street. She argues that the earliest positive efforts to theorize "oral tradition," and to depict popular oral culture as a culture (rather than a lack of culture), were prompted less by any protodemocratic impulse than by a profound discomfort with new cultures of reading, writing, and even speaking shaped by print. Challenging traditional models of oral versus literate societies and key assumptions about culture’s ties to the spoken and the written word, this landmark study reorients critical conversations across eighteenth-century studies, media and communications studies, the history of the book, and beyond.