Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

Hannah (King's College London) Crawforth

Cambridge University Press, 2016

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How did authors such as Jonson, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Drawing together early modern literature and linguistics, Crawforth argues that the history of English as it was studied in the period radically underpins the writing of its greatest poets.

ISBN-13
9781107614550
ISBN-10
1107614554
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-12-01
Pages
232
Dimensions
552x423x17
Weight
342