Memoirs of His Own Life, by Sir James Melville ... M.D.Xlix-M.D.Xciii Ed. by T. Thomson
Memoirs of His Own Life, by Sir James Melville ... M.D.Xlix-M.D.Xciii Ed. by T. Thomson

Author: James Melville (sir )

Publisher:

Published: 2019-08-14

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780371204672

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Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere
Book-Men, Book Clubs, and the Romantic Literary Sphere

Author: Ina Ferris

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-29

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1137367601

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This book re-reads the tangled relations of book culture and literary culture in the early nineteenth century by restoring to view the figure of the bookman and the effaced history of his book clubs. As outliers inserting themselves into the matrix of literary production rather than remaining within that of reception, both provoked debate by producing, writing, and circulating books in ways that expanded fundamental points of literary orientation in lateral directions not coincident with those of the literary sphere. Deploying a wide range of historical, archival and literary materials, the study combines the history and geography of books, cultural theory, and literary history to make visible a bookish array of alterative networks, genres, and locations that were obscured by the literary sphere in establishing its authority as arbiter of the modern book.

Standardizing Written English
Standardizing Written English

Author: Amy J. Devitt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-02-13

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780521024044

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Professor Devitt offers a new view of the linguistic process of standardization, the movement of specific language features towards uniformity. Drawing on theoretical arguments and empirical data, she examines the way in which linguistic conformity develops out of variation, and the textual and social factors that influence this process. After defining and clarifying the general theoretical issues involved, the author takes as a specific case study the standardization of written English in Scotland in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and shows that standardization is a gradual process, that it occurs at significantly different rates and times in different genres, that it encompasses periods of great variation, and that it occurs concurrently with sociopolitical shifts. The interrelationship of linguistic features, genres, and social pressures shape the nature and direction of standardization.

The Wisest Fool
The Wisest Fool

Author: Steven Veerapen

Publisher: Birlinn Ltd

Published: 2023-09-07

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1788856406

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James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind the authorised Bible bearing his name, or the drooling fool whose speech could barely be understood. For too long, he has paled in comparison to his more celebrated Tudor and Stuart forebears. But who was he really? To what extent have myth, anecdote, and rumour obscured him? In this new and ground-breaking biography, James's story is laid bare and a welter of scurrilous, outrageous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. What emerges is a portrait of Elizabeth I's successor as his contemporaries knew him: a gregarious, idealistic man obsessed with the idea of family, whose personal and political goals could never match up to reality. With reference to letters, libels and state papers, it casts fresh light on the personal, domestic, international and sexual politics of this misunderstood sovereign. 'A real page-turner for lovers of history' - Philippa Gregory