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Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Tixall Letters
Tixall Letters
Author: Aston FamilyPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Tixall letters; or The correspondence of the Aston family, and their friends, during the seventeenth century, with notes by A. Clifford
Author: Arthur CliffordTixall Letters: or, the Correspondence of the Aston family and their friends during the seventeenth century. With notes and illustrations by A. Clifford
Author: Esq. Arthur CLIFFORDPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1410
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Bibliotheca Staffordiensis
Author: ... Bibliotheca Staffordiensis; or, a bibliogr. account of books a. other printed matter rel. to - printed or publ. in - or written by a native, resident, or person deriving a title fr. - any portion of the county of Stafford: giving a full collation a. biogr. not. of authors a. printers ...
Author: Rupert SimmsManuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England
Author: Joshua EckhardtPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317101057
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Perhaps more than any other kind of book, manuscript miscellanies require a complex and ’material’ reading strategy. This collection of essays engages the renewed and expanding interest in early modern English miscellanies, anthologies, and other compilations. Manuscript Miscellanies in Early Modern England models and refines the study of these complicated collections. Several of its contributors question and redefine the terms we use to describe miscellanies and anthologies. Two senior scholars correct the misidentification of a scribe and, in so doing, uncover evidence of a Catholic, probably Jesuit, priest and community in a trio of manuscripts. Additional contributors show compilers interpreting, attributing, and arranging texts, as well as passively accepting others’ editorial decisions. While manuscript verse miscellanies remain appropriately central to the collection, several essays also involve print and prose, ranging from letters to sermons and even political prophesies. Using extensive textual and bibliographical evidence, the collection offers stimulating new readings of literature, politics, and religion in the early modern period, and promises to make important interventions in academic studies of the history of the book.
Patterns of Change in 18th-century English
Author: Terttu NevalainenPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027263833
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Eighteenth-century English is often associated with normative grammar. But to what extent did prescriptivism impact ongoing processes of linguistic change? The authors of this volume examine a variety of linguistic changes in a corpus of personal correspondence, including the auxiliary do, verbal -s and the progressive aspect, and they conclude that direct normative influence on them must have been minimal. The studies are contextualized by discussions of the normative tradition and the correspondence corpus, and of eighteenth-century English society and culture. Basing their work on a variationist sociolinguistic approach, the authors introduce the models and methods they have used to trace the progress of linguistic changes in the “long” eighteenth century, 1680–1800. Aggregate findings are balanced by analysing individuals and their varying participation in these processes. The final chapter places these results in a wider context and considers them in relation to past sociolinguistic work. One of the major findings of the studies is that in most cases the overall pace of change was slow. Factors retarding change include speaker evaluation and repurposing outgoing features, in particular, for certain styles and registers.
The Language of Daily Life in England (1400-1800)
Author: Arja NurmiPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027254281
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
The Language of Daily Life in England (14001800) is an important state-of-the art account of historical sociolinguistic and socio-pragmatic research. The volume contains nine studies and an introductory essay which discuss linguistic and social variation and change over four centuries. Each study tackles a linguistic or social phenomenon, and approaches it with a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, always embedded in the socio-historical context. The volume presents new information on linguistic variation and change, while evaluating and developing the relevant theoretical and methodological tools. The writers form one of the leading research teams in the field, and, as compilers of the Corpus of Early English Correspondence, have an informed understanding of the data in all its depth. This volume will be of interest to scholars in historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and socio-pragmatics, but also e.g. social history. The approachable style of writing makes it also inviting for advanced students.