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

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  • Author : Carey McIntosh
  • Release Date : 2020-05-18
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 230
  • ISBN 13 : 9004430636
  • File Size : 1,1 MB
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Semantics and Cultural Change in the British Enlightenment: New Words and Old by Carey McIntosh PDF Summary

Book Description: 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.

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