Protean shape : a study in eighteenth-century vocabulary and usage

著者

• Tucker, Susie I.

書誌事項

Protean shape : a study in eighteenth-century vocabulary and usage

Susie I. Tucker

（Bloomsbury academic collections, . English literary criticism ; 18th-19th centuries）

Bloomsbury, 2013

• : hardback

注記

Reprint. Originally published: London : Athlone Press, 1967

ISBN for sub series "English literary criticism": 9781472535412

ISBN for sub series "English literary criticism -- 18th-19th centuries": 9781472536143

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-301) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The aim of this book is to let us see our language as a living and developing human activity in a period of history which offers special advantages for the purpose. Miss Tucker's method is to analyse in the course of a connected narrative a large, wide-ranging body of words and phrases from two principal points of view. In Part One, using as the basis of evidence and discussion a few representative critical journals, including those with which Johnson, Goldsmith, Smollett, and Burke were prominently associated, she asks how the eighteenth century looked at its own language: what, for example, it esteemed elegant or vulgar, held correct or a solecism, found new or old-fashioned, impressive or funny. In Part Two the emphasis shifts from the eighteenth century's views of itself to our views of the eighteenth century as we look back. Here the interest centres by contrast on our difficulties, our discoveries, and our conclusions and in the process our understanding of eighteenth century literature and manners is immeasurably sharpened.

目次

Abbreviations Prologue Part One: The Eighteenth Century Looks At Its Language I. Exposition and Definition II. Censure and Protest III. Apology IV. Recommendation Part Two: The Twentieth Century Looks Back V. The Unknown VI. The Enlightening VII. The Undeveloped VIII. The Misleading Epilogue Appendix: A note on Eighteenth-Century Periodicals Bibliography Index of Words and Topics Index of Persons

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BB15135070
• ISBN:
  • 9781472506887
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: London
• ページ数/冊数: x, 322 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • DC23 : 420.9034
• 件名:
  • LCSH : English language -- 18th century -- Usage
  • LCSH : Lexicology
• 親書誌ID:
  • BB11561849