Literary English since Shakespeare. / Edited by George Watson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watson, George, 1927-2013, compiler.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Galaxy book ; GB 314.

A Galaxy book ; GB 314.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

English language--History.

English language.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 407 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1970.

Contents:

The current scene in linguistics, by N. Chomsky.

Realism and the three styles, by E. Auerbach.

The meaning of "literal," by O. Barfield.

On sentence-length, by G. U. Yule.

Monosyllabic lines and words, by A. C. Bradley.

Shakespeare and the language of poetry, by O. Jespersen.

The Baroque style in prose, by M. W. Croll.

Jonson's dramatic prose, by J. A. Barish.

The language of the metaphysicals, by G. Watson.

Milton and the vocabulary of verse and prose, by H. S. Davies.

Science and English prose style, by R. F. Jones.

The style of Dryden's prose, by W. P. Ker.

Pope and the syntax of satire, by J. P. W. Rogers.

Swift and syntactical connection, by L. T. Milic.

Irony in Eighteenth-Century fiction, by W. C. Booth.

The consistency of Johnson's style, by W. K. Wimsatt.

Syntax in Wordsworth's Prelude, by D. Davie.

Scott's linguistic vagaries, by E. M. W. Tillyard.

The language of the Victorians, by F. W. Bateson.

On Dickens, by W. A. Ward.

Dialect in the novels of Hardy and George Eliot, by P. Ingham.

The first paragraph of James's Ambassadors, by I. Watt.

The holy language of modernism, by D. Donoghue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

78741