Bearing the Word
Title | Bearing the Word PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret Homans |
Publisher | Heinemann Educational Publishers |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780226351063 |
A reprint of the 1986 work in which Homans (English, Yale) explores the variety of ways in which 19th c. women writers attempted to reclaim their own experiences as paradigms for writing. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society
Title | The Nineteenth-Century Church and English Society PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Knight |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521657112 |
The first study of lay people and parish clergy in the nineteenth-century Church of England.
Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics
Title | Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Bizzell |
Publisher | Modern Language Association |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2020-12-15 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1603295224 |
In the nineteenth century the United States was ablaze with activism and reform: people of all races, creeds, classes, and genders engaged with diverse intellectual, social, and civic issues. This cutting-edge, revelatory book focuses on rhetoric that is overtly political and oriented to social reform. It not only contributes to our historical understanding of the period by covering a wide array of contexts--from letters, preaching, and speeches to labor organizing, protests, journalism, and theater by white and Black women, Indigenous people, and Chinese immigrants--but also relates conflicts over imperialism, colonialism, women's rights, temperance, and slavery to today's struggles over racial justice, sexual freedom, access to multimodal knowledge, and the unjust effects of sociopolitical hierarchies. The editors' introduction traces recent scholarship on activist rhetorics and the turn in rhetorical theory toward the work of marginalized voices calling for radical social change.
Nineteenth-century English
Title | Nineteenth-century English PDF eBook |
Author | Richard W. Bailey |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press ELT |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
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Traces the transformation of the English language through the nineteenth-century economic and cultural landscape.
Communities of Practice in the History of English
Title | Communities of Practice in the History of English PDF eBook |
Author | Joanna Kopaczyk |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 301 |
Release | 2013-10-10 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027271208 |
Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of communities of practice takes its starting point in the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger and refers to groups of people defined both through their membership in a community and through their shared practices. Three types of communities are particularly highlighted: networks of letter writers; groups of scribes and printers; and other groups of professionals, in particular administrators and scientists. In these diverse contexts in England, Scotland, the United States and South Africa, language change is not seen as an abstract process but as a response to the communicative needs and practices of groups of people engaged in interaction.
Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Title | Literacy, Language and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ireland PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Anne Barr |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786942089 |
This volume explores the multiple forms and functions of reading and writing in nineteenth-century Ireland. It traces how understandings of literacy and language shaped national and transnational discourses of cultural identity, and the different reading communities produced by questions of language, religion, status, education and audience.
Democratic Eloquence
Title | Democratic Eloquence PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Cmiel |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780520074859 |
"A penetrating account of the long debate about the kind of public language appropriate for a democratic society. . . . Cmiel manages to do justice to both sides."--Christopher Lasch, author of The Culture of Narcissism "Every scholar interested in the English language will put this book next to Mencken and Baugh. It will be indispensable to writing the social history of English into the 20th Century."--Joseph Williams, author of Origins of the English Language