Transforming Early English
The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots
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Part of Studies in English Language
- Author: Jeremy J. Smith, University of Glasgow
- Date Published: June 2020
- availability: In stock
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420389
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Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Scots texts undergo, as they are transmitted over time and space. The book argues that formal features such as spelling, script and font, and punctuation - often neglected in critical engagement with past texts - relate closely to dynamic, shifting socio-cultural processes, imperatives and functions. This theme is illustrated through numerous case-studies in textual recuperation, ranging from the reinvention of Old English poetry and prose in the later medieval and early modern periods, to the eighteenth-century 'vernacular revival' of literature in Older Scots.
Read more- Ranges widely across some thousand years of English and Scottish literary-textual history, with numerous illustrative case-studies
- Brings historical pragmatics into dynamic articulation with other growing disciplines such as book history, and revives others such as textual criticism
- Invites readers to engage more closely with features such as spelling, script/font and punctuation and to realise their importance for the interpretation of texts from the past
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- Date Published: June 2020
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108420389
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 156 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.54kg
- contains: 13 b/w illus.
- availability: In stock
Table of Contents
Prologue. Snatched from the fire: the case of Thomas Percy
1. On historical pragmatics
2. Inventing the Anglo-Saxons
3. 'Witnesses preordained by God': the reception of Middle English religious prose
4. The great tradition: Langland, Gower, Chaucer
5. Forging the nation: reworking older Scottish literature
6. On textual transformations: Walter Scott and beyond.
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