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Scientific writing tells us very much approximately how the language of technology has constructed in developing and speaking wisdom in English. This quantity offers a brand new point of view at the evolution of the particular language of drugs, in response to the digital corpus of Early glossy English scientific Texts, containing over million phrases of scientific writing from 1500 to 1700.

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Within the 15th and 16th centuries, Europeans invented 'Indians' and populated the area with them. the worldwide heritage of the time period 'Indian' is still mostly unwritten and this quantity, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to think about the proximities and distances among quite a few early glossy discourses of the Indian.

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Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of old neoplatonism in early sleek English texts. In having a look heavily at poems and prose writings by way of authors as various as Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Edward Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Traherne, Thomas Browne and, final now not least, Aphra Behn, this examine makes an attempt to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary perform in addition to to chart its transformative capability within the moving contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational clash in sixteenth- and 17th-century England.

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The dimensions of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's delivery is testimony to his prestige as the most globally well known literary authors the realm has ever noticeable. but Dickens has additionally develop into linked within the public mind's eye with a selected model of the Victorian prior and with respectability.