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020			_a9781107300750 (ebook)
020			_z9781107041769 (hardback)
020			_z9781107614550 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aPR428.L35 _bC73 2013
082	0	0	_a820.9/357 _223
100	1		_aCrawforth, Hannah, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aEtymology and the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature / _cHannah Crawforth.
246	3		_aEtymology & the Invention of English in Early Modern Literature
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (228 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aHow did authors such as Jonson, Spenser, Donne and Milton think about the past lives of the words they used? Hannah Crawforth shows how early modern writers were acutely attuned to the religious and political implications of the etymology of English words. She argues that these lexically astute writers actively engaged with the lexicographers, Anglo-Saxonists and etymologists who were carrying out a national project to recover, or invent, the origins of English, at a time when the question of a national vernacular was inseparable from that of national identity. English words are deployed to particular effect – as a polemical weapon, allegorical device, coded form of communication, type of historical allusion or political tool. 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.
650		0	_aPoetics
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107041769
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107300750
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
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