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Archaic style in English literature, 1590-1674 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Munro, Lucy
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
English language > Early modern, 1500-1700 > Style.
English language > Archaisms.
English language > Style.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction : conceptualising archaism
  • Within our own memory : old English and the early modern poet
  • Chaucer, Gower, and the anxiety of obsolescence
  • Archaic style in religious writing: immutability, controversy, prophecy
  • Staging generations: archaism and the theatrical past
  • Shepherds' speech : archaism and early Stuart pastoral drama
  • Archaism and the 'English' epic
  • Coda : looking backward, looking forward.