Download PDF by Irma Taavitsainen,Päivi Pahta: Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Studies in English

Scientific writing tells us very much approximately how the language of technological know-how has built in developing and speaking wisdom in English. This quantity presents a brand new standpoint at the evolution of the exact language of medication, in line with the digital corpus of Early glossy English scientific Texts, containing over million phrases of scientific writing from 1500 to 1700.

Download e-book for kindle: Indography: Writing the "Indian" in Early Modern England by J. Harris

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 principally unwritten and this quantity, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to think about the proximities and distances among quite a few early sleek discourses of the Indian.

Transparency and Dissimulation: Configurations of by Verena Olejniczak Lobsien PDF

Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of historical neoplatonism in early sleek English texts. In taking a look heavily at poems and prose writings by way of authors as different 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 learn makes an attempt to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary perform in addition to to chart its transformative power within the moving contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational clash in sixteenth- and 17th-century England.

Dickens and Modernity (Essays and Studies) by Juliet John PDF

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