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

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Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-267) and index.
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.
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Subject	English prose literature -- History and criticism.
	English prose literature.
	Women -- Books and reading -- Great Britain -- History.
	Women -- Books and reading.
	Great Britain.
	History.
	Literature publishing -- Great Britain -- History.
	Literature publishing.
	Written communication -- Great Britain -- History.
	Written communication.
	Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
	Intellectual life.
	Literacy -- Great Britain -- History.
	Literacy.
	English language -- Rhetoric.
	English language -- Rhetoric.
	English language -- Style.
	English language -- Style.
	Courtesy in literature.
	Courtesy in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
Subject	Women.
	Womyn.
Other Form:	Print version: McIntosh, Carey. Evolution of English prose, 1700-1800. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 0521624320 (DLC) 97040963 (OCoLC)37761896
ISBN	0511005954 (electronic book)
	9780511005954 (electronic book)
	0521624320 (hardback)

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

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