Fanny Burney

Fanny Burney
Author: Joseph A. Grau
Publisher: Scholarly Title
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1981
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

English in Modern Times

English in Modern Times
Author: Joan C Beal
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-02-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1444119133

English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. This is the first undergraduate text to cover the whole of this important period, which has been called the 'Cinderella' of English historical linguistics because of its lack of representation in scholarly literature. This book is sociohistorical in orientation, arguing that social changes in the Anglophone world need to be taken into account if we are to understand the linguistic changes that occurred during this period. Further chapters deal with changes in vocabulary, syntax and morphology and phonology and with the attempts of lexicographers, grammarians and elocutionists to arrest and control these changes by codifying the language. Unlike many earlier histories of English, 'English in Modern Times' does not define 'English' as confined to Standard (English) English, but also considers the development of extraterritorial Englishes and non-standard varieties of British English in the Later Modern period.

Canadiana

Canadiana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 812
Release: 1975
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

A.U.M.L.A.

A.U.M.L.A.
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1974
Genre: Literature, Modern
ISBN:

The Fair Sex

The Fair Sex
Author: Marlene R. Hansen
Publisher: Coronet Books
Total Pages: 128
Release: 1988
Genre: British fiction
ISBN:

Georgic Literature and the Environment

Georgic Literature and the Environment
Author: Sue Edney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2022-11-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1000779181

This expansive edited collection explores in depth the georgic genre and its connections to the natural world. Together, its chapters demonstrate that georgic—a genre based primarily on two classical poems about farming, Virgil’s Georgics and Hesiod’s Works and Days—has been reworked by writers throughout modern and early modern English-language literary history as a way of thinking about humans’ relationships with the environment. The book is divided into three sections: Defining Georgic, Managing Nature and Eco-Georgic for the Anthropocene. It centres the georgic genre in the ecocritical conversation, giving it equal prominence with pastoral, elegy and lyric as an example of ‘nature writing’ that can speak to urgent environmental questions throughout literary history and up to the present day. It provides an overview of the myriad ways georgic has been reworked in order to address human relationships with the environment, through focused case studies on individual texts and authors, including James Grainger, William Wordsworth, Henry David Thoreau, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, Judith Wright and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. This is a much-needed volume for literary critics, academics and students engaged in ecocritical studies, environmental humanities and literature, addressing a significantly overlooked environmental literary genre.