Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The ordering of English
- 2 Literacy and politeness: the gentrification of English prose
- 3 Testing the model
- 4 Loose and periodic sentences
- 5 Lofty language and low
- 6 Nominal and oral styles: Johnson and Richardson
- 7 The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793
- 8 The instruments of literacy
- 9 Politeness; feminization
- 10 Style and rhetoric
- Epilogue: language change
- References
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The ordering of English
- 2 Literacy and politeness: the gentrification of English prose
- 3 Testing the model
- 4 Loose and periodic sentences
- 5 Lofty language and low
- 6 Nominal and oral styles: Johnson and Richardson
- 7 The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793
- 8 The instruments of literacy
- 9 Politeness; feminization
- 10 Style and rhetoric
- Epilogue: language change
- References
- Index
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- The Evolution of English Prose, 1700–1800Style, Politeness, and Print Culture, pp. 268 - 276Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998