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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
ISBN: 9780691210742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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155,23 zł |
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
ISBN: 9780521021555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This study explores the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing on the relationship between England and one of its "Celtic colonies," Scotland, Janet Sorensen examines how the expansion of the British empire influenced the formation of a national standard English. The book demonstrates the ambivalence at the heart of British linguistic identity, moving from a close analysis of Scottish writers Alexander MacDonald, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett to a revised understanding of the language use of Samuel Johnson and Jane...
This study explores the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing on the relationship bet...
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215,11 zł |
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English
ISBN: 9780691169026 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. Strange Vernaculars delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the "common people" and traces the ways that these languages, once... How vocabularies once associated with outsiders became objects of fascination in eighteenth-century Britain While eighteenth-century e... |
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247,08 zł |
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The International Companion to Scottish Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781908980311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland’s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts of Union, the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745, and the emergence of the new British Empire as a global superpower. It also witnessed religious, economic, and social upheavals, the beginnings of industrialisation, and the start of the Clearances, as well as the astonishing efflorescence of intellectual activity known as the Scottish Enlightenment. This International Companion offers new perspectives on how the long eighteenth century...
The period from 1650 to 1800 encompasses the Restoration, the 1688 Revolution, the failure of the Company of Scotland’s Darien colony, the 1707 Acts...
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129,69 zł |
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The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-Century British Writing
ISBN: 9780521653275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This study explores the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing on the relationship between England and one of its "Celtic colonies," Scotland, Janet Sorensen examines how the expansion of the British empire influenced the formation of a national standard English. The book demonstrates the ambivalence at the heart of British linguistic identity, moving from a close analysis of Scottish writers Alexander MacDonald, Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett to a revised understanding of the language use of Samuel Johnson and Jane...
This study explores the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing on the relationship bet...
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455,36 zł |
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Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780521832830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
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455,36 zł |
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Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism
ISBN: 9780521180764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the U.S. Addressing a range of major figures and topics, the essays examine their relationship to the concepts of the Scottish Enlightenment and British literary Romanticism as well as to Scottish and English writing.
This original collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 includes essays by leading scholars from Scotland, Engla...
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215,11 zł |
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