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The Evolution of English Prose, 1700 1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture

The Evolution of English Prose, 1700 1800: Style, Politeness, and Print Culture

Hardcover

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0521624320
ISBN13: 9780521624329
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 5 1998
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
At the beginning of the eighteenth century ordinary written English was close to speech; by 1800, people expressed themselves more formally, politely, and precisely. The new writtenness of prose coincided with the development of a mature print culture, the rise of women writers, the invention of prescriptive grammars, and a powerful new rhetoric. Carey McIntosh traces these changes and illustrates them with comparisons of work by Defoe and Paine, Swift and Burke, Addison and Johnson, Shaftesbury and Godwin, and Astell and Wollstonecraft.

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