The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the EnlightenmentIan Robinson traces the legacy of of prose writing as a form theorised 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 meaning, Robinson argues, is at the heart of the way we understand the external world. |
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Contents
Sentence and period | 1 |
i | 27 |
ii | 46 |
Prose rhythm | 55 |
Cranmers commonwealth | 71 |
Shakespeare vs the wanderers | 105 |
Drydens democracy | 141 |
The prose world | 153 |
Appendices | 166 |
Medieval punctuation theory | 185 |
Cranmer and the cursus | 200 |
| 209 | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Establishment of Modern English Prose in the Reformation and the Enlightenment |
| Author | Ian Robinson |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0521480884, 9780521480888 |
| Length | 218 pages |
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