Table of Contents: The evolution of English prose, 1700-1800 :

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.
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Table of Contents:

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.