Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, Nichols
Автор: Nichols Название: Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 1108074146 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108074148 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8552.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives `an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century`.
Описание: This eight-volume set, published 1817-58 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols` Literary Anecdotes (1812-15), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we now take for granted were first being developed.
Описание: This eight-volume set, published 1817-58 by the Nichols family, is a sequel to John Nichols` Literary Anecdotes (1812-15), and provides a useful source of biographical material on authors and publishers at a time when many of the literary genres we now take for granted were first being developed.
Автор: Nichols Название: Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 1108074138 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108074131 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7443.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives `an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century`.
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 shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from The New Canting Dictionary to Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others.
Janet Sorensen argues that the recognition and recovery of outsider languages was part of a transition in the eighteenth century from an aristocratic, exclusive body politic to a British national community based on the rhetoric of inclusion and liberty, as well as the revaluing of a common British past. These representations of the vernacular made room for the "common people" within national culture, but only after representing their language as "strange." Such strange and estranged languages, even or especially in their obscurity, came to be claimed as British, making for complex imaginings of the nation and those who composed it. Odd cant languages, witty slang phrases, provincial terms newly valued for their connection to British history, or nautical jargon repurposed for sentimental connections all toggle, in eighteenth-century jest books, novels, and poems, between the alluringly alien and familiarly British.
Shedding new light on the history of the English language, Strange Vernaculars explores how eighteenth-century British literature transformed the patois attributed to those on the margins into living symbols of the nation.
Examples of slang from Strange Vernaculars
bum-boat woman: one who sells bread, cheese, greens, and liquor to sailors from a small boat alongside a ship
collar day: execution day
crewnting: groaning, like a grunting horse
gentleman's companion: lice
gingerbread-work: gilded carvings of a ship's bow and stern
luggs: ears
mort: a large amount
thraw: to argue hotly and loudly
Автор: Barter Название: Scenes from Eighteenth Century Comedies ISBN: 1107451078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107451070 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5859.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Originally published in 1910, this book contains sections from six British comedies written in the eighteenth century. Barter provides a brief introduction on the history of British theatre and developments in comedy after the Restoration, as well as critical notes on the extracts at the end of the volume.
Автор: Gosse Название: A History of Eighteenth-Century Literature (1660–1780) ISBN: 1108033911 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108033916 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in 1889, Gosse`s study of English literature from 1660 to 1780 was commissioned by Macmillan as the third volume in a series of literary histories. It was a landmark in a relatively new field of academic study, popular and accessible, providing an enthusiastic and wide-ranging introduction to the period.
Автор: Nichols Название: Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century ISBN: 110807412X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108074124 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives `an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century`.
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