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Preface | ||
1 | The ordering of English | 1 |
Hypotheses, contexts | 1 | |
Approaches | 13 | |
Cultural insecurity in the early eighteenth century | 15 | |
Cultural complacency in the later eighteenth century | 19 | |
2 | Literacy and politeness: the gentrification of English prose | 22 |
Early eighteenth-century prose | 23 | |
Late eighteenth-century prose | 31 | |
Orality and writtenness | 34 | |
Microscope and telescope | 38 | |
3 | Testing the model | 42 |
Defoe and Paine | 43 | |
Pope and Wordsworth | 45 | |
Astell and Wollstonecraft | 50 | |
Jonathan Swift | 53 | |
Edmund Burke | 58 | |
Shaftesbury | 67 | |
4 | Loose and periodic sentences | 76 |
What makes a sentence periodic? | 78 | |
The domains of periodicity | 84 | |
Defoe and the syntax of accumulation | 88 | |
Joseph Addison | 94 | |
5 | Lofty language and low | 98 |
James Boswell | 99 | |
Decorum and genre and Boswell's Life | 106 | |
A map of high and low: Arbuthnot and others | 110 | |
6 | Nominal and oral styles: Johnson and Richardson | 117 |
More and less in orality and writtenness | 117 | |
Writtenness and orality in Johnson's prose | 126 | |
Samuel Richardson: the uses of indirection | 137 | |
7 | The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793 | 142 |
What is rhetoric? | 143 | |
What was rhetoric in the eighteenth century? | 146 | |
The New Rhetoric of 1748 to 1793 | 156 | |
Civilization as a cultural value | 160 | |
8 | The instruments of literacy | 169 |
Grammars | 171 | |
Review magazines | 181 | |
Dictionaries (and encyclopedias) | 184 | |
9 | Politeness; feminization | 195 |
The feminization of culture | 196 | |
"My Fair Lady": Pamela and ladies of the stage | 207 | |
Politeness in the dictionaries | 214 | |
Politeness as a universal in language | 216 | |
10 | Style and rhetoric | 221 |
Style as a mode of understanding | 221 | |
A rhetorical frame | 224 | |
Style-studies and cultural history | 233 | |
Epilogue: language change | 235 | |
References | 239 | |
Index | 268 |
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