The evolution of English prose, 1700-1800 : style, politeness, and print culture /

Between 1700 and 1800 English prose became more polite and less closely tied to speech. A large scale feminisation of literary and other values coincided with the development of a mature print culture; these two historical trends make themselves felt in the evolution of prose. In this book Carey McI...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McIntosh, Carey
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Temas:
English prose literature > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Literature publishing > Great Britain > History.
Written communication > Great Britain > History.
Literacy > Great Britain > History.
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Style.
Courtesy in literature.
Exposition (Rhetoric)
Prose anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > Édition > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Communication écrite > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Anglais (Langue) > Rhétorique.
Anglais (Langue) > Stylistique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Courtesy in literature
English language > Rhetoric
English language > Style
English prose literature
Intellectual life
Literacy
Literature publishing
Women > Books and reading
Written communication
Engels.
Proza.
Literaire taal.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Grande-Bretagne > Vie intellectuelle.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The ordering of English. Hypotheses, contexts. Approaches. Cultural insecurity in the early eighteenth century. Cultural complacency in the later eighteenth century
  • 2. Literacy and politeness: the gentrification of English prose. Early eighteenth-century prose. Late eighteenth-century prose. Orality and writtenness. Microscope and telescope
  • 3. Testing the model. Defoe and Paine. Pope and Wordsworth. Astell and Wollstonecraft. Jonathan Swift. Edmund Burke. Shaftesbury
  • 4. Loose and periodic sentences. What makes a sentence periodic? The domains of periodicity. Defoe and the syntax of accumulation. Joseph Addison
  • 5. Lofty language and low. James Boswell. Decorum and genre and Boswell's Life.

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