Romanticism and the rise of English
By: Andrew Elfenbein.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780804760256
Subjects: English language -- 18th century -- Usage; English language -- 19th century -- Usage; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; English philology -- History; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the dust of philology; title: Purifying English; title: Romantic syntax; title: Bad Englishes; title: Sounding meaning; title: Sentencing Romanticism; title: Afterlives : philology, elocution, composition.