Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107614550 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str.

Hannah Crawforth

Opis

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

Recenzje

'… in addition to opening several fruitful avenues for future scholarly work, Crawforth has done readers one other service. By focusing on authors' systematic use of etymology, she shows us that Renaissance poets imagined the study of word origins, a philological and humanistic study, as, more than anything, a practical approach to the world.' Ryan Netzley, Milton Quarterly

Spis treści

Preface; Introduction: etymology in early modern literature; 1. Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser; 2. Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson; 3. Etymology and place in Donne's sermons; 4. Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose; Conclusion: a world in a word; Bibliography.