Hannah Crawforth

Etymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Crawforth presents a major re-reading of early modern poetry, demonstrating its debt to the emergence of linguistics in the period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9781107041769
• ISBN-10: 1107041767
• Artikelnr.: 38611633

Autorenporträt

Hannah Crawforth is a lecturer in Early Modern Literature at King's College London, where she is also one of the founding members of the London Shakespeare Centre. She has published articles in a range of journals and edited collections, and is textual editor for the Norton Shakespeare's new edition of The Two Noble Kinsmen.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: etymology in early modern literature
1. Etymology and estrangement in the poems of Edmund Spenser
2. Etymology and textual time in the masques of Ben Jonson
3. Etymology and place in Donne's sermons
4. Etymology and the ends of idealism in Milton's prose
Conclusion: a world in a word
Bibliography.