The Genuine Trial of John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffreys, Spinster, for the Murder of Her Late Uncle Mr. Joseph Jeffreys ... at the Assizes Held at Chelmsford ... March 11, 1752.

The Genuine Trial of John Swan, and Elizabeth Jeffreys, Spinster, for the Murder of Her Late Uncle Mr. Joseph Jeffreys ... at the Assizes Held at Chelmsford ... March 11, 1752.
Author: JOHN. SWAN
Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-04-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781385364635

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Huntington Library N018246 In this edition the date in the imprint is in arabic. Dublin: printed for G. Faulkner, P. Wilson, and J. Esdall, 1752. [2],22p.; 8°

Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues

Thou and You in Early Modern English Dialogues
Author: Terry Walker
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2007
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789027254016

This book is a corpus-based study examining thou and you in three speech-related genres from 1560–1760, a crucial period in the history of second person singular pronouns, spanning the time from when you became dominant to when thou became all but obsolete. The study embraces the fields of corpus linguistics, historical pragmatics, and historical sociolinguistics. Using data drawn from the recently released A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760 and manuscript material, the aim is to ascertain which extra-linguistic and linguistic factors highlighted by previous research appear particularly relevant in the selection and relative distribution of thou and you. Previous research on thou and you has tended to concentrate on Drama and/or been primarily qualitative in nature. Depositions in particular have hitherto received very little attention. This book is intended to help fill a gap in the literature by presenting an in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis of pronoun usage in Trials, Depositions, and, for comparative purposes, Drama Comedy.

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834

Reading Daughters' Fictions 1709-1834
Author: Caroline Gonda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996-03-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780521553957

It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role. Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.

Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830

Women, Writing and the Public Sphere, 1700-1830
Author: Elizabeth Eger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2001-01-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521771061

An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.

Early Modern English Dialogues

Early Modern English Dialogues
Author: Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2010-02-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521835410

This book analyses speech-related genres in Early Modern English, providing ideas of what spoken interaction in earlier times might have been like.