The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment

by Ian Robinson

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Ian Robinson traces the legacy of prose writing as a form theorized and propagated as an art distinct from verse. Engaging with histories of rhetoric as well as the work of the great prose writers in English, Robinson provides a bold reappraisal of this literary form, and shows that the formal construct of the sentence itself is historically conditioned and no older than the post-medieval world. The relationship between rhetorical style and literary...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0521480884

ISBN13:9780521480888

Release Date:January 1999

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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