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The history of the English language : a source book / David Burnley.
Van Pelt Library PE1075.5 .B87 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnley, J. D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--History--Sources.
- English language.
- English language--Old English, ca. 450-1100--Texts.
- English language--Early modern.
- History.
- English language--Middle English, 1100-1500--Texts.
- English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Texts.
- English language--Dialects--Texts.
- English language--Dialects.
- Genre:
- Texts.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 418 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Harlow, England ; New York : Longman, 2000.
- Summary:
- A new edition of this comprehensive guide to the history of the English language. The book contains carefully chosen extracts to illustrate the development of English, looking particularly at the stylistic and dialectical variety of English. For the new edition Professor Burnley has expanded the introductory sections, added new selections and increased the number of illustrations. He has also included a newsection covering newspaper advertisements from the 18th Century to the present. A popular guide which explores the development of English from Aelfric to Darwin.
- Contents:
- Old English (700-1100) 1
- 1 Dialect Texts 9
- A The Vespasian Psalter gloss 9
- B The Lindisfarne Gospel gloss 13
- C A Kentish Charter 18
- 2 Alfred's Preface to the Pastoral Care 20
- 3 Caedmon 29
- 4 A Homily of AElfric 39
- 5 AElfric's Cosmology 45
- 6 The Battle of Brunanburh 51
- 7 The Battle of Maldon 57
- Early Middle English (1100-1300) 65
- 8 The Peterborough Chronicle 70
- A First Continuation (1127) 72
- B Final Continuation (1154) 78
- 9 The Ormulum 82
- 10 Vices and Virtues 92
- 11 The Ancrene Wisse 101
- 12 A Kentish Sermon: The Marriage at Cana 111
- 13 A Proclamation of Henry III (1258) 116
- 14 The South English Legendary 121
- 15 Kyng Alisaunder 128
- Later Middle English (1300-1500) 137
- 16 Robert Mannyng's Chronicle of England 145
- 17 The Pearl 151
- 18 Geoffrey Chaucer 159
- A 'The Reeve's Tale' 162
- B Troilus and Criseyde, Prologue to Book II 164
- 19 A Letter from the Corporation of London to Henry V (1417) 171
- 20 The Study of the Vernacular in Medieval England 175
- A The Preface to a Wycliffite Biblical Concordance 175
- B A Fifteenth-Century Text on Phonetics 181
- 21 Osbern Bokenham's Mappula Angliae 185
- 22 A Paston letter 191
- 23 Malory, 'The Giant of St Michael's Mount' 195
- A The Winchester text 198
- B Caxton's text 201
- 24 John Skelton, translation of the Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus 205
- Early Modern English (1500-1800) 211
- 25 Thomas Wilson, The Arte of Rhetorique 216
- 26 The Diary of Henry Machyn 222
- 27 John Lyly, Euphues or The Anatomy of Wit 226
- 28 Letters of Queen Elizabeth I and King James VI of Scotland 233
- A Queen Elizabeth's letter 234
- B King James's letter 235
- 29 George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie 238
- 30 Thomas Nashe 245
- A From the Preface to Christs Teares over Jerusalem 245
- B From The Unfortunate Traveller 247
- 31 Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act V, scene i 252
- 32 Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horne-booke 260
- 33 John Donne 266
- A Seventeenth Meditation 267
- B 'Song' 268
- C 'The good-morrow' 269
- 34 The Letters of Lady Brilliana Harley 272
- 35 John Milton, from Paradise Lost, Book II 278
- 36 Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks 286
- 37 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock 290
- 38 Daniel Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain 298
- 39 From the Preface to Johnson's Dictionary 304
- 40 Fanny Burney, a letter from Bath, 8 September 1791 310
- Modern English (1800-1920) 315
- 41 Thomas Carlyle, Signs of the Times 321
- 42 Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers 326
- 43 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights 331
- 44 Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 337
- 45 From the General Explanations to the New English Dictionary 342
- 46 Henry Bradley, Review of the New English Dictionary 349
- 47 Henry Sweet, The Practical Study of Languages 356
- 48 Soldiers' letters home in World War I 361
- A Two letters from Captain Talbot 362
- B Excerpt from a letter by Private Sweeney 364
- 49 D. H. Lawrence, 'Fanny and Annie' 368
- 51 The English Bible 388
- A Mark 6: 18-30 389
- B Matthew 7: 13-29 393
- 52 The Marriage Service in English 399.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [408]-414) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0582312639
- OCLC:
- 43552833
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