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

Main Author: McIntosh, Carey.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Subjects:
English prose literature > History and criticism.
Women > Books and reading > Great Britain > History.
Literature publishing > History. > Great Britain
Written communication > History. > Great Britain
Literacy > History. > Great Britain
English language > Rhetoric.
English language > Style.
Courtesy in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English prose literature.
Intellectual life.
Literacy.
Literature publishing.
Women > Books and reading.
Engels.
Proza.
Great Britain > Intellectual life.
Great Britain.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=55221
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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 -- 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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