Jeremy J. Smith (University of Glasgow)

Transforming Early English

The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots

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Produktbeschreibung

This book accounts for later re-workings of early English and Scottish texts, arguing for a new interdisciplinary approach to textual studies from an angle of historical pragmatics. It will appeal to researchers and higher-level students in historical linguistics and book history and to those interested more broadly in sociocultural formation.

Produktdetails

• Studies in English Language
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9781108414852
• ISBN-10: 1108414850
• Artikelnr.: 64369151

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Smith is the University of Glasgow's Professor of English Philology, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies. His publications reflect his wide interests, which range from English historical linguistics and book history to the language of Robert Burns.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue. Snatched from the fire: the case of Thomas Percy
1. On historical pragmatics
2. Inventing the Anglo-Saxons
3. 'Witnesses preordained by God': the reception of Middle English religious prose
4. The great tradition: Langland, Gower, Chaucer
5. Forging the nation: reworking older Scottish literature
6. On textual transformations: Walter Scott and beyond.