The Evolution of English Prose : style, politeness, and print culture /

Main Author: McIntosh, Carey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998
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245 1 4 |a The Evolution of English Prose :  |b style, politeness, and print culture /  |c Carey McIntosh 
260 |a Cambridge :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 1998 
300 |a xi, 276 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-267) and index 
505 0 |a 1. The ordering of English. Hypotheses, contexts. Approaches. Cultural insecurity in the early eighteenth century. Cultural complacency in the later eighteenth century 
505 0 |a 2. Literacy and politeness: the gentrification of English prose. Early eighteenth-century prose. Late eighteenth-century prose. Orality and writtenness. Microscope and telescope 
505 0 |a 3. Testing the model. Defoe and Paine. Pope and Wordsworth. Astell and Wollstonecraft. Jonathan Swift. Edmund Burke. Shaftesbury 
505 0 |a 4. Loose and periodic sentences. What makes a sentence periodic? The domains of periodicity. Defoe and the syntax of accumulation. Joseph Addison 
505 0 |a 5. Lofty language and low. James Boswell. Decorum and genre and Boswellʹs Life. A map of high and low: Arbuthnot and others 
505 0 |a 6. Nominal and oral styles: Johnson and Richardson. More and less in orality and writtenness. Writtenness and orality in Johnsonʹs prose. Samuel Richardson: the uses of indirection 
505 0 |a 7. The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793. What is rhetoric? What was rhetoric in the eighteenth century? The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793. Civilization as a cultural value 
505 0 |a 8. The instruments of literacy. Grammars. Review magazines. Dictionaries (and encyclopedias) 
505 0 |a 9. Politeness; feminization. The feminization of culture. "My Fair Lady": Pamela and ladies of the stage. Politeness in the dictionaries. Politeness as a universal in language 
505 0 |a 10. Style and rhetoric. Style as a mode of understanding. A rhetorical frame. Style-studies and cultural history -- Epilogue: language change. 
650 0 |a English prose literature  |x History and criticism 
650 0 |a Women  |x Books and reading  |z Great Britain  |x History 
650 0 |a Literature publishing  |x History  |z Great Britain 
650 0 |a Written communication  |x History  |z Great Britain 
650 0 |a Literacy  |x History  |z Great Britain 
650 0 |a English language  |x Rhetoric 
650 0 |a English language  |x Style 
650 0 |a Courtesy in literature 
651 0 |a Great Britain  |x Intellectual life 
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