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Author Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980- author.

Title Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature / Dr Hannah Crawforth, Lecturer in Early Modern English, King's College, London.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Etymology in early modern literature -- Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser -- Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson -- Etymology and place in Donne's sermons -- Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose -- Conclusion: A world in a word.
Summary Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.
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Subject English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
English language -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Etymology.
English language -- Early modern -- Etymology.
English language -- Early modern.
Poetics.
Poetics.
Chronological Term 1500-1700
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Crawforth, Hannah Jane, 1980- Etymology and the invention of English in early modern literature 9781107041769 (DLC) 2013018455 (OCoLC)847537357
ISBN 9781461950707 (electronic book)
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