Download e-book for kindle: Medical Writing in Early Modern English (Studies in English by Irma Taavitsainen,Päivi Pahta

Clinical writing tells us very much approximately how the language of technology has built in developing and speaking wisdom in English. This quantity offers a brand new point of view at the evolution of the designated language of medication, in response to the digital corpus of Early smooth English clinical Texts, containing over million phrases of clinical 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 historical past of the time period 'Indian' is still mostly unwritten and this quantity, taking its cue from Shakespeare, asks us to contemplate the proximities and distances among a number of early smooth discourses of the Indian.

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Transparency and Dissimulation analyses the configurations of old neoplatonism in early sleek English texts. In taking a look heavily at poems and prose writings by means 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 research makes an attempt to map the outlines of a neoplatonic aesthetics in literary perform in addition to to chart its transformative strength within the transferring contexts of cultural turbulency and denominational clash in sixteenth- and 17th-century England.

Dickens and Modernity (Essays and Studies) - download pdf or read online

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