Time-Bound Words: Semantic and Social Economies from Chaucer's England to Shakespeare's

ISBN-13: 9780333753798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 224 str.

Peggy Knapp

Opis

Time-Bound Words argues that changes in English society and the English language are woven together, often in surprising ways, and investigates this claim by following eleven words from Chaucer's time to Shakespeare's. Middle English words like corage, estat, thrift, and virtu come to serve the logic of new social discourses by 1611. Language from Chaucer, Wyclif, More, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and others is examined both as current and emerging usage, and as verbal play that accomplishes cultural work."

Recenzje

...provide useful and vivid introductions to the lived textures of the early modern world. Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: Philology in A New Key Corage/Courage Estat/Estate Fre/Free Gloss Kynde/Kind Lewed/Lewd Providence Queynte/Quaint Sely/Silly Thrift Virtù/Virtue After Words References Cited Index

O autorze

Peggy A. Knapp is Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.