Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old

A study of English semantics during the Enlightenment. New words 1650-1800 reflect the new middle-class culture of sociability, commerce, and science. Old mostly obsolete words illuminate the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, outrageous sexism, magic, horses, bizarre food.

About the author

Carey McIntosh, Ph.D. (1964, Harvard University), is Professor of English Emeritus at Hofstra University. He has published books and articles on Samuel Johnson, eighteenth-century language, literature, and style, including The Evolution of English Prose 1700-1800 (Cambridge, 1998).

Product details

• Authors: Carey McIntosh
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2020
• EAN: 9789004429093
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42909-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous