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Transforming Early English
The Reinvention of Early English and Older Scots
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Transforming Early English shows how historical pragmatics can offer a powerful explanatory framework for the changes medieval English and Older Scots texts undergo, as they are transmitted over time and space. The book argues that formal features such as spelling, script and font, and punctuation - often neglected in critical engagement with past texts - relate closely to dynamic, shifting socio-cultural processes, imperatives and functions. This theme is illustrated through numerous case-studies in textual recuperation, ranging from the reinvention of Old English poetry and prose in the later medieval and early modern periods, to the eighteenth-century 'vernacular revival' of literature in Older Scots.
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- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note on the Transcriptions
- Introduction: Snatched from the Fire: The Case of Thomas Percy
- Chapter 1 On Historical Pragmatics
- Chapter 2 Inventing the Anglo-Saxons
- Chapter 3 âWitnesses Preordained by Godâ: The Reception of Middle English Religious Prose
- Chapter 4 The Great Tradition: Langland, Gower, Chaucer
- Chapter 5 Forging the Nation: Reworking Older Scottish Literature
- Chapter 6 On Textual Transformations: Walter Scott and Beyond
- Appendix of Plates
- Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts and Early Prints
- Subject Index